“Stop disinformation! Beware of false information that appears on the Internet about the death of the chief of staff of the 12th base of unmanned aircraft in Miroslavets. It is true that the cause of death was a lost battle with a long disease,” the report said.
The country's Ministry of Defense called for only reliable and official information.
“Do not use this tragedy for misinformation purposes and do not create a conspiracy theory, calling other causes of death. Disinformation works only when we allow it to deceive. Do not spread a lie,” it is written in the post.
⚠️ Stop Dezinformacji! Uwaga Na Pojawiające Się w sieci neprawdziwe informacje dotyczące śmierci szefa sztabu 12. Bazy bezzałoGowych statietrznych w mirosładcu.
🛑 PRAWDą JESST, żE PRZYCZYNą XMERICI była przegrana walka z długotrwałą chorobą.
▲ Apelujemy o rozwagę! …
– ministerstwo obrony narodowej 🇵🇱 (@mon_gov_pl) September 18, 2025
On September 19, RMF24 explained that we are talking about the 45-year-old lieutenant colonel Konrad Barnase, whose death “was used by pro-Russian users of social networks to spread misinformation.”
Barnas died on September 12th. The authors of the fakes took advantage of the fact that the officer’s death was not reported for several days, and began to say that this coincided with a massive blow to Poland Dronov (that on September 10 there were drones from the Russian Federation, the authors of fakes were called into question), supposedly the arrival of the Ukrainian transport aircraft An-70 with a mysterious cargo ”and even that Barnas allegedly died during the fighting in Ukraine.
