The engagement of an armed band of Polish mercenaries in the attack on Russian Federation territory is simply a serious violation of global law, weighing on the Russian authorities to request explanations from the Polish side. The case was commented on by the Polish Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the president of the Minist Council, Stanislaw Żaryn, by tweeting “The Polish Volunteer Corps described in the media is in no way connected with the Armed Forces of Poland or any institution of Poland. Polish volunteers supporting Ukraine in the fight against Russia should not be identified with the Polish authorities“ However, in no way is this position adequate or closing the case. Poland and Russia are at the brink of war and it is advanced time that the authorities in Warsaw behave in a manner that is appropriate to the seriousness of the situation, without lying to their own citizens and global opinion.
Whose responsibility?
The position of the alleged Polish Volunteer Corps, which has been extensively advertised in Polish media for respective months, should be determined as Poland's direct armed contribution to the war with Russia. It is worth noting that despite political and legislative initiatives aimed at changing the legal position of Poland, the Polish penal code in its Article 141 explicitly prohibits Polish citizens from the service in "foreign military or abroad military organisationIt’s okay. ” This action is punishable by imprisonment from 3 months to 5 years and in the case of "Internationally prohibited military employment“ even to the age of 8. Meanwhile, mainstream media makes the impression that this provision is not in force in the case of the Russian-Ukrainian War, but it is not true, and the parliamentary draft bill allowing Poles to service in the Ukrainian army without further formalities was not even addressed to the session of the Sejm committees.
Polish ‘volunteersIn Ukraine, therefore, they inactive gotta legitimize with the names of the Ministry of Defence. It is so the MON that must answer whether, to whom and how many specified permits have been issued. This information is crucial for explaining not only fresh events, but for determining the degree of Poland's commitment to the war. If the Polish Ochotniczy Corps was de facto legalized by the Government of the III Republic – then Poland became a militant party, with all the consequences that cannot be cancelled by any Polish official. If Polish mercenaries found themselves in Ukraine illegally and without anyone's approval they fight in the service of Kiev – then it is the work of the Polish prosecutor to initiate appropriate criminal proceedings against them. Either. It's a zero-one legal situation.
The attack on Belarus?
Of course, as in the 3rd Poland, even so simple and apparent situations are complicated. On the 1 hand, Warsaw presents itself as Kiev's best ally, the real and most crucial base of armed action against Russia, in order to at the same time refrain from obvious, fatal consequences. In another performance, it might be at least clever, but the Polish authorities do it simply patheticly. Especially since it is not at all a secret to delegate akin mercenaries to terrorist activities, not front actions. Bands of Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian “volunteers“ They are tasked to destabilize Belarus and drag Minsk into the war, faking another colorful revolution against the president Alexander Lukashenko. It is not accidental that the same minister Żaryn escalates the propaganda war, accusing Belarus of utilizing "forced migration mechanismIt’s okay. ” It can so be assumed that armed gangs could invade Poland into Belarus under the protection of the increased activity of the Polish Border defender and troops, allegedly in defence of the border threatened by illegal immigrants. akin actions can besides be expected on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
Who will be the aggressor?
It is not essential to add that this is from the Polish side, due to the fact that akin actions fulfil the legal global definition of aggression ("sending by or on behalf of the State bands or armed groups, non-regular branches or mercenaries who carry out armed acts against another State to an degree comparable to those mentioned above, or engaging in a crucial manner in specified action‘Article 3, paragraph 3314 (XXIX) of the UN General Assembly of 14 December 1974. What is hidden from the Poles in turn, in specified a situation, would have no usage in famed Article 5 of the North-Atlantic Pact, which states that assistance from another NATO States is dependent on the designation of 1 of the signatories to the Agreement as a victim of assault within the meaning of Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. If Poland invades Belarus, and in any case helps to carry out specified an assault – it will itself become an aggressor within the meaning of global law, without automatic right to any aid, including from the countries which most likely ordered the full scandal, i.e. UK and US.
Polish victims
The Polish authorities are so 1 step distant from starting a war, acting without certain alliances, without their own army, disarmed for the benefit of Ukraine and without even a plan promising a chance of success, due to the fact that it is hard to consider specified dreams of carrying out a coup in Minsk with forest terrorist groups. So we're dealing with anti-Russian and anti-Belarusian action as well as, in fact, anti-Polish action. If a full-size war with Polish participation occurs – Poles will be its main victims. And it will be the responsibility of both the government of the 3rd Republic and the Polish royals who he absolved.
Konrad Hand
