Tanks on the streets of Warsaw, military columns and suggestions that Poland is preparing for war. Records from rehearsals before the parade again became a fuel for misinformation on social media. akin false narratives had already appeared - and even reached audiences in the United States.
Saturday for the occasion Holy Polish Army on the 106th anniversary Warszawski Battle will take place military parade in Warsaw and parade in Gdynia.
W Warsaw will be able to see modern military equipment, including Borsuk and Rosomak combat vehicles, Abrams and K2 tanks, or Crab cannonhaubice or Gladius drone systems; aviation will besides be presented, including F-16 and F-35 aircraft, Black Hawk helicopters, AW149 and AH-64 Apache. Parallel in the waters of Gdańsk Bay in Gdynia will take place sea paradeto participate Navy ships.
Tanks on the streets of Warsaw before the parade. There's false information on the network.
In view of the planned events on the network, false information concerning the passage of military equipment through Warsaw streets. Social media has footage of the preparations for the parade on which you can see moving tanks.
On platform X, however, the films were given false claims that equipment passages were related to Polish preparations for war. 1 specified publication gathered over 300,000 views.
SEE: "The top in History". Military exercises before the parade, dense equipment on the streets
Ministry of Defence announced in the Communication military equipment crossing Warsaw streets in preparation for the Polish Army Day. According to the announcement, from 8 to 9 August, from 23 to 3 a.m., rehearsals were held before the parade.
Similar actions were besides planned in Gdynia. As the MON said, test of the marine component It started on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. Ships flowing in formation will be visible from the full tricity coast - from the pier in Gdańsk-Brzeźno, through the pier in Sopot and Gdynia-Orłów, to the city beach and Kościuszko Skwer in Gdynia.
Disinformation before the parade of the Polish Army. False recordings come back all year.
Test recordings before the parade were utilized to spread false information besides a year ago. At the time, netizens falsely claimed that the military equipment visible on the recordings was allegedly additional equipment sent to Poland by NATO.
On the another hand, in September 2024 the French AFP agency described the case of an net user, who on platform X published a recording showing the passage of tanks in Warsaw. In his entry he falsely claimed that The equipment shown in the video was to be sent to fight Russia. In fact, the recording came from a military parade, which took place on 15 August 2024 on the Warsaw Wisłostrad.
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In erstwhile years there was besides false information that was expected to appear on military vehicles participating in the parade Ukrainian flags. In fact, they were military partners.
Polish military formations usage their own colours and symbols and any usage blue and yellow colors. These include the 20th Bartoszycka Mechanized Brigade, the 34th Armored Cavalry Brigade and the 16th Pomeranian Mechanized Division. Colours exhibited by soldiers are part of the recognition and mean belonging to a peculiar military unit.
Poland defiled utilized in misinformation in the USA
Recordings from the Polish military parade were besides utilized in misinformation in the United States. January 2025, after the president of the United States Donald Trump signed an order to send 1.5 000 soldiers to the Mexican border to limit illegal crossing of the border by migrants, the network began to receive recordings showing the alleged passage of military equipment.
One of them was a recording from the military parade in Warsaw. The video was distributed as an alleged coverage from Texas, but in fact it was recorded from a footbridge over Czerniakowska Street, close Piaseczyński Canal and Legia Warszawa Stadium.
Polish Army Festival, celebrated on 15 August, commemorates the 1920 Warsaw Battle, in which Polish troops, as a consequence of an effective counteroffensive, pushed the Bolshevik forces distant from Warsaw. For years, the defilade has been an crucial point of the celebration, which is attended by thousands of soldiers presenting the state-of-the-art weapons on the equipment of the Polish army.
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