Mateusz Morawiecki criticizes Donald Tusk regarding information about the threat from Russia

Yesterday, the Russians carried out a massive attack, which resulted in drones striking near the Polish border. A truck at a gas station and a train heading to Warsaw were hit. The Russians are ready to use more dangerous means against Poland than before, i.e. jet-powered drones, said Donald Tusk during a briefing with the heads of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, the Ministry of National Defense and representatives of the services. Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki commented extensively on Sunday's events.

"Why does Donald Tusk keep them only for himself?"

"Something very disturbing is happening in the East, and the Polish government has apparently decided that the society, the opposition and perhaps even some state institutions do not deserve to know about the scale of the threat," said the former prime minister. He referred to the information about the report from the head of the CIA, which was recently received by the head of government. He stated that if this information concerned Russian escalation in our region, then a fundamental question arises:

"Why does Donald Tusk keep them only for himself and his immediate surroundings?"

In his opinion, Poland's security does not belong to Donald Tusk, but to all Poles, which is why he described the lack of consultation with the opposition on this matter as "a sign of extreme irresponsibility."

Morawiecki recalls the Belarusian protests

Mateusz Morawiecki pointed out that he was also in a similar, although much less serious, situation as Donald Tusk in 2020. In the summer of that year, mass protests broke out in Belarus after the elections rigged by Alyaksandr Lukashenko.

"I myself organized consultation meetings on security matters at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. Because when the state is threatened, the party war ends and responsibility for Poland begins," he recalled. Interestingly, however, he did not recall his actions in 2022, when a full-scale war broke out in Ukraine.

"The threat does not end in Ukraine"

In Morawiecki's opinion, Russia today does not look like a country that wants to end the war, but rather everything indicates that it is preparing for escalation.

"Russia may try to attack the Ukrainian economy and energy system this fall and winter on a scale that will have dramatic consequences for the entire region. But the threat does not end with Ukraine," he said. The former prime minister suggests that if the West is divided, the Kremlin may start testing NATO countries.

"Sabotage. Cyberattacks. Drones. Attacks on critical infrastructure. Railways. Airports. Warehouses. Defense industry plants. Attempts to disrupt transport and communication. Operations intended to cause chaos and fear. This is not a scenario from a movie. These are tools that Russia is already using," he noted and assessed that in this situation, the worst possible response from Poland was "passivity, complacency and partisan retreat into its own circle."

"If the government knows that the situation may deteriorate dramatically, it should immediately launch consultation mechanisms with the opposition and present to it the actual scale of the threat - of course, to the extent permitted by information security," concluded the former prime minister.