Poland Tells NATO Allies About Eurocorps Commander's Dismissal

Defense News ,Poland :- Poland recently told its NATO buddies ahead of time about firing a Eurocorps leader over a security issue, and they didn't seem bothered, said the defense minister on Thursday.

Poland got rid of Lieutenant General Jaroslaw Gromadzinski as commander of the European military group on Wednesday. This happened after Poland's counterintelligence agency started looking into his security clearance.

The defense minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, mentioned on a private TV channel, TVN24, that there's no tension between them and their allies. He explained that the French defense leader met with Poland's top army officer and said that this was Poland's own business, and they're the ones making decisions.

Kosiniak-Kamysz also mentioned that the whole process was confidential.

Gromadzinski had been leading Eurocorps, a combined military force involving some European Union and NATO nations, since June 2023. He expressed in a statement late Wednesday that he thought he would be cleared of any issues.

"I believe that the inspection procedure initiated by the Military Counterintelligence Service will end positively for me," he wrote on a platform called X.

On Thursday, the defense ministry announced that Lieutenant General Piotr Blazeusz, the first deputy chief of Poland's Army General Staff, would take over as the new Eurocorps commander.