Two top commanders of the Polish armed forces have tendered their resignations, the military said Tuesday, APA reports citing Associated Press.
Polish media have reported on growing tensions between the two commanders — the chief of the General Staff, Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak, and operational commander Gen. Tomasz Piotrowski — and Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.
Blaszczak has publicly criticized Piotrowski over the army’s reaction to a stray Russian missile that crashed in a Polish forest in December. No one was hurt.
Blaszczak alleged that Piotrowski had not informed him of the incident and that the army failed to find the missile. It was later accidentally found by a civilian.
According to media reports, the minister had recently kept Piotrowski out of the loop on operational decisions like stepping up defenses on the border with Belarus or the evacuation of Poles from Israel after the weekend Hamas attack.
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