Dead soldier stabbed at the border, Poland accuses Belarus

The Polish soldier who was attacked with a knife by a migrant through the fence on the border with Belarus on May 28 died today in hospital as a result of his injuries, the General Command of the Armed Forces of Poland announced.

He was transported to Warsaw today in a serious condition with complications from injuries sustained from stab wounds to the ribs, but doctors were unable to save his life.

"A young soldier laid down his life defending Poland's border. The homeland and countrymen will not forget that sacrifice," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced his condolences to the soldier's family.

The head of Polish diplomacy, Radoslav Šikorski, called on the chargé d'affaires of the Belarusian embassy in Warsaw to urgently deliver a note of protest today, demanding that the Belarusian services determine which migrant killed the Polish soldier and extradite him to Poland.

"It is one of the catalog of hostile behavior of Belarus towards Poland, because I want you to know that it is not accidental, it is not an individual decision of those bandits, but they are trained for it. The authorities of Belarus will bear the consequences. It is unacceptable that a neighboring country behaves like this on the border." , Šikorski told the media.

Poland and the Baltic countries, as well as the European Union, accuse Russia and Belarus of trying to cause chaos and destabilize by opening the eastern route for refugees from Africa and Asia, facilitating their entry into Russia and Belarus and then transferring them in an organized manner to the external borders with the European Union Europe.

Statistics from the Polish Border Guard show that the number of aggressive illegal border crossings in groups has doubled compared to the first five months of last year to the current 17.000 attempts since the beginning of the year.

In April, there were 3.400 such attempts, and in May already 7.500, with increasing violence when migrants regularly attack soldiers and border guards on the other side of the 5,5-meter-high fence with stones, branches, broken bottles, knives and other dangerous objects.

Šikorski warned that not only Poland is the target of hybrid attacks, but the whole of Europe where, within the framework of hybrid attacks of Russia and Belarus, murders are committed, fires are set, not only a series of fires in Poland in recent weeks, but also in Great Britain or the Baltic countries.

"We have flocks of trolls, millions who are trying to influence the outcome of the European elections, cyber attacks. Today, you can kill someone with a cyber attack. It is enough to block the emergency phone number. This is not coddling, it is a sharp attack on Europe," said Šikorski. .