MOSCOW (Sputnik) – More than 100 Polish soldiers have been injured in clashes with illegal migrants seeking to cross over from Belarus since the border crisis began in mid-2021, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
«More than 100 soldiers have been injured. Sometimes very lightly, but a small group consists of those who were seriously injured,» he said on Zet radio.
«Sometimes years pass because it is difficult to find someone who is not in the territory of Poland or its allies… The entire state apparatus is involved. Sooner or later Poland will catch him and punish him,» he said.
Thousands of migrants gathered at the Polish-Belarusian border in mid-2021 in the hope of entering the European Union. Since then, hundreds of people fleeing conflict and poverty at home have made regular attempts to cross illegally into Poland, prompting the central European nation to tighten border security. Warsaw accuses Belarus of fueling the crisis, which Minsk denies.
