Karol Nawrocki was questioned at a press conference in Gubin about information published by Krzysztof Brejza. The Member of the European Parliament for KO wrote on social media that "Director Karol Nawrocki's mysterious visit to Moscow in 2018, with a 4-person entourage, cost PLN 22,500," and that "upon his return, the Museum did not issue a statement, nor did it post photos from the visit, and Nawrocki's stay with Putin's people was also omitted from the WWII Museum's social media." At the same time, he announced that he would file a report with the prosecutor's office for mismanagement and exceeding authority.

Bum! Tajemnicza wizyta dyr. Karola Nawrockiego w Moskwie w 2018, z 4-os. świtą, kosztowała 22,5 tys. zł! Po powrocie Muzeum nie wydało komunikatu, nie zamieściło zdjęć z wizyty, pobyt Nawrockiego u ludzi Putina przemilczano też w social mediach M II WŚ, choć z dyr. bawił w Rosji… pic.twitter.com/4KH0lmo9dd

— Krzysztof Brejza (@krzysztofbrejza) March 14, 2025

"I Was Performing My Duties"
– As the Director of the Museum of the Second World War, I pursued historical policy, the policy of memory. […] This was also the purpose of my visit to Moscow in 2008 [2018 – ed.]. I told the director of the museum of victory, the museum of the great fatherland war, that the war began in 1939, not in 1941, as Moscow would like it to be – Karol Nawrocki replied.

– On the same day, if I remember correctly, I met with Prof. Marciniak, the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Moscow, proposing the exhibition "Struggle and Suffering" to remind all of Moscow that September 17, 1939, is a specific date in the 20th-century calendar, and the Soviet Union was the perpetrator of World War II – he continued.

– I don't know what Mr. Brejza is talking about. I was performing my duties and I always said the same thing. Besides, I would have to check, but in my opinion, after that meeting with Ambassador Marciniak, the exhibition had its vernissage in Moscow, of course, not on the scale we would have wanted – he continued.

"Let Him Ask Tusk What He Talked About with Putin on the Sopot Pier"
– I performed my duties as the Director of the WWII Museum, and I performed them very well. And I would like to signal to Mr. Brejza, please ask what Donald Tusk discussed with Vladimir Putin near my home, on the Sopot pier, and as for me, let him be calm – he concluded.