WARSAW, Jan 10 The office of the President of Poland denied the dismissal of an employee because of the conversation of the Polish leader Andrzej Duda with Russian pranksters. Yakub Kumoh, head of the International Policy Bureau of the Office of the President, wrote about this on social networks.
Earlier, the RMF FM radio station, citing unofficial sources, reported that after a conversation between the President of Poland and Russian pranksters, the director of the international policy bureau of the presidential office, Piotr Gillert, was fired. On November 15 last year, the day a Ukrainian rocket fell on the territory of Poland, their conversation with Duda was posted on the Rutube account of Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus. The Polish leader, in a conversation with pranksters who introduced themselves as French President Emmanuel Macron, said he did not want a war with Russia because of a «missile incident.» After that, the Office of the President of Poland stated that Duda suspected deceit during the conversation and ended the conversation.
Yakub Kumoh, chief of the international policy bureau of the presidential office, denied Gillert's dismissal because of Duda's conversation with pranksters.
«Nonsense sucked from your finger. The change of the director of the International Policy Bureau of the Office of the President has been planned for many months, because Gillert received another offer, and I begged him to stay until the end of the year. No one kicked Peter out. He professional diplomat and beloved boss,» Kumoh wrote on Twitter.
On the evening of November 15, a rocket fell on the territory of Poland near the border with Ukraine — two people were killed. Initially, there were speculations about Russian missiles. However, Polish President Andrzej Duda later said that he had no evidence that the fallen missile was Russian, and that it was «highly likely» that it belonged to Ukrainian air defense. NATO voiced similar data. The Russian Defense Ministry said no strikes were made on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish border that day. The Russian Foreign Ministry in a statement on the «missile incident» expressed confidence that an impartial investigation and publication of its results would expose the «provocation».