Pole MP Artur Gurski has apologized for blaming Russia for the Smolensk air crash, the Novie Izvestia newspaper says.

According to the MP, he made the statement in ‘a state of a profound shock’ just in several hours after the air crush.

The Tu-154 passenger plane with Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and a delegation of senior officials, crashed some 300-400 meters from the runway near the Russian city of Smolensk on Saturday while landing in heavy fog.