PThe Olsky command reported that the soldier died as a result of a shot from a service weapon “without the participation of third parties.” The deceased was not involved in the operation to deter migrants at the border with Belarus
A serviceman of the Polish Armed Forces was killed on the Belarusian-Polish border. This is reported by Polish Radio.
The deceased was a soldier of the 17th Greater Poland Mechanized Brigade. He died as a result of a shot. According to preliminary data, there was an accident.
According to the command, the shot was fired from a service weapon “without the participation of third parties”. The military family was informed about the incident, a psychologist is working with relatives.
“The soldier was on guard duty, that is, he did not perform tasks directly on the Polish-Belarusian border. He was sent to the border service a little more than a week ago. Since his secondment, he has not been in contact with migrants,” the command said.
The military gendarmerie is investigating the incident in cooperation with the Prosecutor’s office of Bialystok.
The migration crisis on the borders of Belarus with several European Union countries, including Poland, escalated a few days ago when a large group of illegal immigrants moved from the territory of Belarus to the border with Poland. The Polish Border Service reported that among those who tried to cross the border were, in particular, immigrants fromIraq, India, Syria, Nigeria and Ivory Coast. Twice, small groups of migrants managed to break through the fence at the border and get into Poland, but the security forces returned them back to the camp set up in the border zone. On the afternoon of November 13, it became known about the discovery in Poland of the body of a Syrian citizen near the border with Belarus. No cause of death was given.
The EU countries accuse Minsk of deliberately escalating the crisis and call for the imposition of sanctions. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated that the Western countries themselves are to blame for this situation, because of whose actions people are “fleeing from the war”.
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