In Poland, the resignation of two heads of the armed forces was announced

In Poland, two major military commanders resigned – the head of the country’s General Staff, General Raimund Andrzejczak, and the operational commander of the armed forces, General Tomasz Piotrowski. The reason is not given.

As Reuters writes on Tuesday, the decisions were announced just a few days before parliamentary elections scheduled for October 15 in Poland, in which the ruling conservative “Law and Justice” party will compete for an unprecedented third term in power. Among the key points of the party’s election campaign is national security.

Reuters notes that the resignations were announced against the background of increased tension between the highest echelons of the armed forces and the government after the comments of the head of the Ministry of Defense Mariusz Blaszczak in May. Then he expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the army did not inform him in time about the incident with the alleged Russian missile.

Polish mass media wrote that a military object found in a forest in the north of the country in April could be a Russian X-55 missile. The publications also said that the Polish military observed an object that entered the country’s airspace in December, but then lost sight of it. The case was initiated only in April, at the initiative of civil authorities. The investigation considers that the rocket threatened people’s lives.