Wednesday media review; WOT without fresh brigades; Moscow burns billions in war

** Konrad Wysocki: Gazeta Polska:“WOT without fresh brigades”**
"The slow ending year 2024 of the Territorial Defence Army (WOT) closes with about 40,000 soldiers. The Commander of Territorials, Brig. Gen. Krzysztof Stańczyk, informed about the construction of the WOT brigade structures in each voivodship. At the same time, this is simply a prediction that no more brigades will be created within the formation. No another kind of Polish army had as uphill as the Territorial Defence Army. They haven't been formed yet, and they've already been brought against them with quite a few names and harassment. "Materewicz's Paper Army", "children dressed in uniforms", "archive caricature" - could be heard in 2016 and 2017. Moreover, years passed, WOT's numbers gradually grew, soldiers of the fresh kind of SZ RP perfectly carried out their tasks, yet part of the political community and alleged experts were inactive skeptical about them. This environment is the opposition of the time, and today's ruling. The head of the MON Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz wanted to liquidate the WOT a fewer years ago, and his current principle, Donald Tusk, called the territorials "parawojski", forgetting what function they played, among others, during the coronavirus pandemic or after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, as well as in defending the border against the hybrid war with Belarus. "The Coalition on 13 December is doing everything to make the WOT, which is simply a European phenomenon and which is developing splendidly, not considered to be the success of Antoni Macierewicz and the erstwhile government," said Wojciech Skurkiewicz, Senator of the Law and Justice, erstwhile Deputy Minister of National Defence in an interview with the “GP”