The new head of Poland’s Interior Ministry, Marcin Kerwinski, has said that the country will abandon versions of Russia’s guilt in the crash of the Tu-154 near Smolensk in 2010, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
“There are no binding versions here. It is a matter of the state honestly finding out what happened. Minister Jerzy Miller’s report explained in detail the reasons for that terrible disaster – in an honest, comprehensive and in-depth way. This is an official document, which, of course, people like Mr Macierewicz have tried to destroy in recent years,” he explained.
In addition, the Minister of National Defence Vladislav Kosiniak-Kamysh announced the signing of the decision to eliminate the commission to re-investigate the plane crash.
“I signed the decision … to cancel the decision to establish a Commission of the Ministry of national defence on the re-investigation of the Tu-154 plane crash, the crash that occurred near Smolensk on April 10, 2010,” – said Kosinyak-Kamysh.
Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said that “denounced Polish Russophobia has long ago virtually buried” Warsaw’s relations with Moscow. He noted that Poland was actively using the situation in Ukraine to cover up its struggle for one of the leading positions in Europe.