Duda's workplace confirmed on Tuesday that he was put via final week to an individual claiming to be France's President Emmanuel Macron.
Duda's workplace mentioned it was one among many worldwide calls that the president obtained at a tense time on November 15, simply after a missile hit in jap Poland, near the border with Ukraine, killing two males.
NATO and Poland's leaders have mentioned the missile almost certainly got here from a Ukrainian air protection system that fired in response to a barrage of Russian assaults on Ukraine's vitality infrastructure.
The workplace mentioned that applicable companies are checking how the pranksters might have reached Duda — for the second time. In 2020 they talked to him posing as UN secretary-general.
Within the new recording posted on YouTube by Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, often known as Vovan and Lexus, Duda might be heard thanking a person whom he believes to be Macron for calling.
Talking in English, Duda relays particulars of the missile incident, of his plans to request NATO consultations and of being very cautious to not exacerbate the scenario with Russia, which invaded neighbouring Ukraine on February 24.
Over greater than seven minutes, Duda, sounding pressured, tells the caller that US President Joe Biden doesn't blame Russia for the missile incident however that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insists it was a Russian-launched projectile. He says he himself is being "further cautious" to not blame Russia however that Poland will search safety consultations with all of its NATO companions.
Opposition politicians lashed out at Duda, accusing him and his workplace of being overly lax with safety.
Opposition Left social gathering lawmaker Tomasz Trela mentioned it is a "shame for the particular companies and for all those that must be checking who they permit to contact the highest chief."
"This can be a blow for our safety and for the opinion we've got within the eyes of our allies," Trela tweeted.
In July 2020, the identical Russian pranksters posted a recording of a cellphone dialog with Duda, by which Kuznetsov posed because the United Nations secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, and rendered the president speechless with questions on Ukraine, Russia and his contemporary re-election. Duda's workplace additionally confirmed that recording as genuine. Two officers from Poland's mission to the UN had been dismissed over the incident.
The pranksters have beforehand embarrassed European politicians together with Macron and then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in addition to Elton John and Prince Harry with comparable hoax calls.