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Don't be stupid, Poland says to those who parrot Russian rumors about drones. Zaorálek also reported them

Novinky

Czech Republic

Friday, September 12


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"I would like to tell Polish politicians like MP Marek Jakubiak, don't be idiots," Tomczyk said, according to the Polsat News server. Jakubiak is suggesting that the Ukrainians are trying to drag Poland into war with the incident.

"I would like to ask all of you who follow us to follow only the official channels of the government and the presidential office. That's where verified and true information appears," Tomczyk said on the Graffiti program.

Jakubiak has been a Polish MP since 2023. He ran for the Law and Justice party and joined the Kukiz'15 parliamentary group in the Sejm.

Tomczyk also recalled the words of President Karol Nawrocki, who said:"Russian disinformation claims that the drones were Ukrainian in order to drag Poland into the war. That is a lie."

Czech politicians, such as Zaorálek, have also jumped on the Russian propaganda bandwagon."We don't even know if they were Russian drones. The drones may be Russian, but they may be controlled by Ukrainians," Zaorálek said during a debate on CNN Prima News.

However, Poland has clearly stated that these were Russian drones. Polish airspace was violated by Iranian Shahid drones and also by Russian Gerbera dummies. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and even Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said that it was intentional and not an accident.

According to Czech expert Jan Růžička, it is also absurd that someone could use GPS or GLONASS to jam such a large number of drones for so long that they would reach Poland and not return to their course.

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"As for interference, drones can be 'fooled' because they are navigated using GPS or GLONASS and need to constantly know their location. But it has its limits. Using electronic warfare, coded signals similar to those from satellites can be sent towards the drone and falsely inform it that it is over Moscow," he told Novinka.

"The drone then deviates from its original route. However, these devices have a limited range, and once the drone goes outside of it, it starts receiving the correct coordinates again and tries to return to its original route," he added.

Růžička also stated that the Shahids have special Kometa antennas that can successfully filter out false signals. The cheaper Gerber ones do not have them.

"We know that one of these drones flew deep into the Polish interior - it is a machine with a range of around 350 kilometers and it is likely that it was launched from Belarus. Personally, I think that the Russian drones over Poland were intentional and a test of what the West is willing to tolerate," he said.

Tusk said that 19 Russian drones had violated the airspace. The Poles have already found the wreckage of 16 drones, three or four of which had to be shot down with the help of the Allies. One of them hit a residential building in the Polish village of Wyryki in the Lublin Voivodeship. Later, Polish authorities said that they had discovered other drone wreckage, for example, near the village of Zamość and in a field near the village of Mniszków, which is located near Łódź.

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