The number of Polish soldiers helping to guard the border with Belarus will increase to 10,000, said the country’s Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak.
“We are increasing the number of soldiers helping the Border Guard by 2,500. In the near future, about 10,000 soldiers from the 12th, 16th and 18th divisions will monitor the impenetrability of the border,” Blaschak wrote on Twitter.
As previously reported by the Border Guard, over the weekend, two groups of illegal migrants tried to storm the border of Belarus and Poland by force. They threw stones and sticks at the border guards and soldiers of the Polish Army. Two soldiers had to be hospitalized.
Recently, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland reported an increase in the number of detained illegal migrants on the border with Belarus and accused the official Minsk of creating a migration crisis. In connection with this situation, the President of Poland introduced a state of emergency in the territories bordering Belarus, and the army and the police were involved in protecting the border. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko noted that Minsk will no longer restrain the flow of illegal migrants to the EU countries: because of the West’s sanctions, there is “neither money, nor effort.” The border guards of Belarus have repeatedly stated about the forcible expulsion of migrants by Lithuania, Poland and Latvia to the Belarusian territory.