Poland will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its eastern border with neighboring Belarus, a deputy interior minister said on August 9, as a record number of migrants try to cross. "This will not be a reinforcement of 1,000 but of 2,000 soldiers," Maciej Wasik told the PAP state news agency, adding that the move was approved by the defense minister following a request from the national border agency for extra manpower. The troops are slated to be deployed within two weeks and will join the 2,000 soldiers already stationed near the border.
Poland To Send Additional 2,000 Troops To Belarusian Border
A Polish border guard patrols the area of a newly built metal wall on the border between Poland and Belarus near Kuznica in June 2022.