Poland Says Explosion Behind 2010 Plane Crash in Western Russia
- Kaczynski tells Poles to brace for attacks as ‘truth’ is near
- Poland accused Russian air controllers of deliberate action
Air wreckage near Smolensk airport.
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On the seventh anniversary of a plane crash that killed the Polish President at a remote Russian airfield, the country’s leader claimed an explosion probably led to the disaster.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland’s most powerful politician whose twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, died in Smolensk in 2010, told Poles to brace for more “attacks” on the nation’s authorities as his colleagues in government neared “the truth” about how the plane crashed. His Law & Justice party has ignored separate investigations by Polish and Russian authorities that found that pilot error was mainly at fault in the disaster.