{"id":289250,"date":"2024-06-11T05:40:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T05:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=289250"},"modified":"2024-06-12T07:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T07:54:55","slug":"explosion-in-polish-weapons-factory-leaves-one-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=289250","title":{"rendered":"Explosion in Polish weapons factory leaves one dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Euronews \u2013 June 10, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>An explosion at an armaments factory in Poland killed one and injured several, local media reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion started a fire and killed a 59-year-old worker at the Mesko weapon factory in the Polish city of Skar\u017cysko-Kamienna.<\/p>\n<p>Another employee was hospitalised after inhaling smoke, though his condition is not life-threatening, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an explosion at the rocket fuel centre, which was put into operation a few years ago,\u201d said the plant\u2019s chairwoman El\u017cbieta \u015areniawska.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the incident is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The factory \u2014 owned by the state-run Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa \u2014 manufactures defence products, anti-tank missiles and small arms ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Poland has provided extensive military support for Ukraine, significantly increasing production for many local arms factories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/06\/10\/explosion-in-polish-weapons-factory-leaves-one-dead\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The above report omits to mention that the plant at which the explosion occurred also manufactures Piorun man-portable air defense systems, which are supplied to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Interestingly, the above report echoes an earlier story from Bulgaria:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Explosions at Bulgarian arms factory set to export to Ukraine<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Krassen Nikolov \u2013 Euractive June 26, 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ammunition warehouses of the Bulgarian arms company EMKO exploded early on Sunday near Karnobat, a few days after Bulgaria announced it would join the coalition to supply shells to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/politics\/news\/explosions-at-bulgarian-arms-factory-set-to-export-to-ukraine\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Is this a coincidence? Or are we witnessing a deliberate but necessarily covert campaign by Russia to undermine the Western backed war effort in Ukraine. Where Ukrainians are fighting and dying in a Western backed and directed war against Russia. Ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion rocks an arms plant in Poland. Although the cause of the blast is still unknown, the plant has been manufacturing various weapons and ordnance for Ukraine <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289253,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289250\/revisions\/289253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}