In March 2023, a program was established: the National Ammunition Reserve (NRA). The resolution states that the goal of the program is to expand and diversify the national production base for large-caliber ammunition and replenish its reserves. The campaign would last until 2029 and would be financed by institutions headed by the closest associates of then Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. As Onet reports, these were the Polish Development Fund, the Industrial Development Agency and the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves.
Polish ammunition
As part of the program, the government of the then Prime Minister commissioned the construction of an ammunition factory to Polska Amunicja, where the majority of shares are held by the State Treasury.
As reported by Onet, Polish ammunition has committed to deliver 50,000 155mm rounds and build a new bullet factory in Ząbkowice ŚląskiePLN 14 billion was allocated from ARN funds for the implementation of both tasks.
However, according to the Ministry of National Defense, the interests of the State have not been properly protected and it intends to notify the Public Prosecutor’s Office about this.
Companies that were refused to participate in the program began contacting the Ministry of National Defense. After analyzing the complaints, the ministry decided to suspend the implementation of the program to reassess the possibilities of its implementation by the Polska Amunicja consortium. Also considered notify the Public Prosecutor’s Office in relation to intentional deception, among others. Prime Minister and abuse of official position by President Paweł Borys.
Position of the former head of the PFR
“Paweł Borys, who has been at the helm of the Polish Development Fund for the past eight years, noted in the initial message sent to us that
“All information related to the National Munitions Reserve program is protected by a proprietary information security clause. […] I cannot disclose any information about any entity registered in the NRA program, including Polska Amunicja SA. Therefore, I cannot confirm that such a recommendation took place for the reasons described above,” the former PFR president said.
Morawiecki and Tusk comment
“Those who smile are even bothered by… the construction of a munitions production plant… Confidential documents about Onet, suspension of the construction of a munitions factory for the Polish army. This is what concern for Poland’s security looks like when there is a war going on behind our eastern border,” Mateusz Morawiecki wrote on the X website.
He then released a video in which he said that instead of waiting for German helmets, “we prefer to rapidly increase the production of ammunition. Not only for Ukraine, but above all for Poland, the whole of Europe and NATO.” He added that he now knows that without Polish support and the decisions of Law and Justice, an independent Ukraine “might no longer exist.”
Meanwhile, Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister, addressed the issue in the following entry: “Mateusz, everyone has known for a long time that it is possible to do business with respirators, masks, visas and generators. But that it is also possible to do business with ammunition and for PLN 14 billion?”
