The tragic events in Jelenia Góra have been exploited to spread disinformation. Following the murder of an 11-year-old girl, false claims began circulating online alleging that the perpetrator was Ukrainian. These claims were denied by Poland’s Ministry of the Interior and Administration (MSWiA), which warned that the lie was a deliberate attempt to incite hatred and deepen social divisions.
The crime, which took place in December, deeply shocked the Polish public. The 11-year-old victim died after being attacked with a sharp object. A 12-year-old student from the same school was detained in connection with the case. Due to the suspect’s age, the proceedings are being handled by a family court; investigators have not disclosed a motive, and preventive measures have been imposed. The girl’s funeral was held on 20 December.
At the same time, false information began to circulate online, claiming that the 12- year-old was Ukrainian. “A terrible crime has occurred in Poland. A 12-year-old girl slit the throat of 11-year-old Danusia. The murderer is probably Ukrainian,” a journalist wrote on Facebook.
“In online discussions, people argue that nationality is irrelevant. That is not entirely the case. Naturally, a child under 13 cannot be held criminally responsible, regardless of nationality. My point, however, is different. For years, I have argued that Poland has admitted millions of people who profess completely different values and cultural norms, and that this poses a serious danger. On the internet, one can find hundreds of videos in which proud Ukrainian parents show their children how ‘bravely’ they cut the throat of a doll or teddy bear marked with the word ‘Russia’— to the delight of both parents.There are also videos showing Ukrainians celebrating the Volhynian massacre with cakes shaped like small Polish children pierced with forks.
In this culture, there is contempt for life—and even for death, as demonstrated by their wild behaviour at Red Army cemeteries. Two years ago, I shared a video of a Ukrainian boy aged around 10–12 abusing a cat on camera (I was banned from ‘Nazibook’ for posting it). He shot the animal several times with an air rifle in a closed room until it died, smiling the entire time.
These are children—but someone is raising them, and then great tragedies happen.”
The author of this post is not an anonymous figure. He gained wider recognition a decade ago as an activist of the openly pro-Russian political party Zmiana, led by Mateusz Piskorski. Among other positions, Zmiana advocated Poland’s withdrawal from NATO and the European Union.
“The establishment of the Zmiana party in January 2015 created a qualitatively new situation on the Polish political scene. For the first time since Poland regained independence and sovereignty from Russia in 1989, a pro-Russian party emerged that openly rejected the country’s geopolitical orientation and alliances,” wrote Grzegorz in the text entitled “The Communist Party of Poland and the ‘Zmiana’ Party as Centres of Soviet and Russian Sabotage and Influence in the Second and Third Republic of Poland”:
In 2024, the author of the post received the “For Peace and Human Rights” award from the Belarusian International Charitable Foundation named after Emil Czeczko —a Polish soldier who deserted to Belarus in December 2022 and died there shortly afterward under unexplained circumstances.
Speaking to the Belarusian state news agency BELTA at the time, the award recipient stated: “Belarus and Poland are neighbours, but our relations are in the most tragic state. In my opinion, this is primarily the fault of the Polish authorities, who—for reasons I do not understand—want to change the government in Belarus and destroy the economic and social order here. They want to sell everything to the West or steal it, just as they did in Poland.”
He is also a vocal defender of Soviet General Ivan Chernyakhovsky, whose monument stood for decades in Pieniężno (Warmia–Masuria), where the general died in February 1945. Although the monument has since been dismantled, the Russian ambassador continues to visit the site annually on the anniversary of Chernyakhovsky’s death, accompanied by Polish sympathisers. In 2024, the same activist took part in such commemorations, as he himself noted in an interview with Lukashenko’s International Radio Belarus.
Who was Ivan Chernyakhovsky? In July 1944, he commanded the 3rd Belorussian Front, whose troops were fighting the German Wehrmacht in the Vilnius region. On 17 July, together with NKVD General Ivan Serov, he invited the leadership of the Vilnius District of the Polish Home Army (AK), headed by Colonel Aleksander Krzyżanowski (“Wilk”), to talks. All Polish officers were arrested. The same was then done to the commanders of partisan units. Around 8,000 AK soldiers were also disarmed. Some of them were killed, while many others were deported to labour camps, where they were subjected to forced labour in logging.
This was the extent of his so-called ‘service’ to Poland. Today, in place of the Soviet general’s monument stands a cross commemorating the victims of Nazism and communism.
In response to lie surrounding the Jelenia Góra tragedy, the Ministry of the Interior issued a firm statement. MSWiA spokeswoman Karolina Gałecka wrote on X:
“The 12-year-old suspect from Jelenia Góra is not Ukrainian. Spreading such nonsense is deliberate disinformation that exploits tragedy and fuels hatred between Poland and Ukraine.”
“I assure you that this post on X is not the only action taken by the MSWiA and Minister Marcin Kierwiński in response to the shameless exploitation of the tragedy in Jelenia Góra to escalate tensions between Poland and Ukraine,” she emphasised.
“The MSWiA and the services subordinate to it respond to content that incites hatred on ethnic or racial grounds. We act both offline and online. Not all police actions can be made public, but the @Polish Police have the tools and use them to counter those who radicalise public sentiment—just as was done in the 1930s,” she added.
Finally, it is also worth pointing out that Zmiana’s former leader, Mateusz Piskorski, appeared in 2025 on the support committee of Grzegorz Braun during the presidential campaign and became affiliated with Braun’s Confederation of the Polish Crown party.
“In two years, if the election circus takes place on schedule, Braun’s party will overtake everyone. The rest—after the failure of their policy in Ukraine and the squandering of our money—will disappear into oblivion. Although I hope Braun will put these thugs on trial,” wrote the former Zmiana activist and author of the defamatory post.
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