Tuesday in Przewodów in the province of Lublin, just on the border with Ukraine, a soviet-made rocket fell on a grain dryer. Two Polish citizens were killed in the explosion. Services are working on site to collect evidence and determine the course of the incident.
The rocket fell in Przewodowo. Morawiecki and Duda spoke
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and President Andrzej Duda announced that a rocket, probably fired by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense, had fallen on Polish territory. President Andrzej Duda said it was probably the fuel that exploded, not the entire missile. – There is no indication that this was an intentional attack on Poland. What happened in Przewodowo it was not an intentional action, it was not a rocket aimed at Poland, Duda said.
On the other hand during his speech in the Sejm, the head of government said“We cannot exclude that the bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure right next to the Polish border is also an intentional provocation made in the hope that such situations may arise.”
Australian television failure
The Przewodów events made headlines around the world and made headlines in many countries. The explosion was also reported by Australian television ABC News. The host of the show made a funny slip on this occasion. The journalist confused the Prime Minister of the Polish government Mateusz Morawiecki with a well-known sailor and Olympian Mateusz Kusznierewicz. The footage went viral on Twitter.
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Kusznierewicz himself also reacted to it. “I lived in Australia for a year and a half, before the 2000 Olympics, so I’m very happy that after 22 years the local media remembers me and pronounces my name correctly, which is not easiest”, commented the athlete. for the naTemat.pl website.
Who is Mateusz Kusznierewicz?
Mateusz Kusznierewicz is a double Olympic medalist, double individual world champion in the Finn class and in the Star class, five times individual European champion and multiple winner of the Polish championship. He won the Olympic gold medal in Atlanta in 1996 and the bronze medal in Athens in 2004. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, he took fourth place.
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