Polish Defence Minister denounces MP’s claims of troop deployment to Ukraine as “outrageous lies”

Poland’s Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has fiercely rejected claims by far-right MP Roman Fritz that Polish troops are being secretly deployed to Ukraine, accusing him of spreading dangerous disinformation that jeopardises national security.

The clash erupted during a parliamentary session on May 7 after Fritz, a representative of the far-right Confederation party, alleged that the Polish Armed Forces had begun sending soldiers to Ukraine despite previous assurances to the contrary, Caliber.Az reports via Polish media.

He claimed professional troops were being selected and prepared to form units operating on Ukrainian territory.

“I move to adjourn this session so the Deputy Prime Minister can present the full truth to this chamber,” Fritz said, suggesting that Kosiniak-Kamysz had misled parliament about Polish military involvement abroad.

Taking the podium immediately afterwards, the Defence Minister delivered a scathing rebuke. “Stop with these outrageous lies,” he declared. “I wrote this to you online, and I’ll say it again here: you are putting Poland and Polish soldiers at risk. You are spouting nonsense.”

Kosiniak-Kamysz acknowledged the presence of Polish military personnel at the embassy and defence attaché office in Kyiv, stating: “Do you know there is an attaché in Kyiv? That soldiers serve in attaché offices? That representatives from the General Staff go there under protection? Do you want to discuss these matters of state security in this way?”

He insisted that no Polish military mission or operation is taking place in Ukraine, stressing that such deployments would require authorisation from the President, which has not been granted.

“You’re brandishing a document that relates to no such mission,” the Minister said. “You don’t understand any of this, and you are not only lying but misleading the public and endangering the security of the Polish state. Enough.”

The Sejm subsequently rejected Fritz’s motion to delay the session.

The controversy follows earlier claims by Fritz on social media, where he shared a leaked military document from February 2025, signed by General Dariusz Malinowski, which outlined requirements for soldiers “assigned to tasks on Ukrainian territory”. Fritz described this as evidence of the formation of a “Polish intervention corps” and called on military families to oppose what he termed “madness”.

In response, Poland’s Armed Forces Operational Command issued a formal statement rejecting what it called “unauthorised lies and manipulations”. It clarified that the document refers to a small, carefully selected group of soldiers deployed to Ukraine for long-established tasks such as protecting the Polish embassy, supporting military attachés, and providing security for visiting Polish officials — functions Poland has carried out in various regions for decades.

“These are standard procedures,” the statement read. “Such narratives are elements of information warfare aimed at weakening the state from within and must be treated with the utmost seriousness.”

By Aghakazim Guliyev