"Presidential veto cuts blind! Karol Nawrocki shuts down the net of Ukraine by his decision, due to the fact that it de facto means his decision to aid the citizens of Ukraine" – wrote Krzysztof Gawkowski on Monday in X.
By Nawrock's decision, Ukraine may lose access to the Starlinks
"This is the end of the Starlink Internet, which Poland is providing to the war-torning Ukraine. It is besides the end of support for storing Ukrainian administration data in a safe place," he added.
"I can't imagine a better gift for Putin's troops than cutting Ukraine off from the Internet, as the president has just decided. Mr President, you must halt blindly hitting on the government in the name of political combat. You harm people who fight for their independency and at the same time aid Russia" - said the minister. "One will say shame, the another betrayal of a neighbor!" he concluded.
Information concerning Starlink for Ukraine almost immediately caught local media in Kiev, writing that the president of Poland vetoed the law under which Poland paid for these devices for Ukraine.
PAP reported any time ago (based on information from the Ministry of Digitalization) that between 2022-2024 our country paid almost PLN 323 million for over 24.5 1000 Starlink terminals and their subscription. In 2025 the estimated cost of the subscription was to be over PLN 77 million.
Let us remind you: president Nawrocki, during a brief speech on Monday, recalled that he had signed 21 laws the erstwhile time, vetoing one. Now he signed five, vetoed three. What didn't he like? Nawrocki said it was unfair, that Poles were expected to be harder to get to a doctor than Ukrainians. – First Poland, first Poles – said.
Some Ukrainians will lose access to 800 plus
The longest he talked about the law on helping Ukrainians. He explained that Russia is the perpetrator, Ukraine is the victim, but we should change the law.
In his opinion, during the presidential run everyone declared that "eight 100 plus should belong only to those citizens, those refugees from Ukraine who undertake to work." Of course, Nawrocki made a mistake, due to the fact that there is no work to work in Poland, the times of the Polish People's Republic have passed.
– I consider that 800 plus should belong only to those Ukrainians who undertake to work in Poland. So is health. Ladies and gentlemen, if we look at wellness protection and see a certain preference of the Ukrainians towards Poles, and wellness protection that the Ukrainians are entitled to regardless of whether they undertake to work and retreat the wellness contribution or not. This puts us in a situation where citizens of the Polish state, in their own country, in Poland, are treated worse than our guests from Ukraine – he continued.
He added that he had proposed his bill on the matter.
