President Andrzej Duda visits the North Task Force — a military group operating on the Polish-Belarusian border as part of an operation under the code name RENGAW. The president met with soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland and officers of Border defender and Police serving in the protection and defence of the border. Along with the president, there is besides the deputy chief of the MON Paweł Bejda.
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At 5 p.m., Andrzej Duda addressed soldiers and border guards who are presently securing the border with Belarus. “Thank you very much for these 4 years of service, in the east, where we border Belarus. Then, after the first disorientation, we noticed groups that started pushing our border,” the president said.
He recalled the beginning of the crisis on the east wall of Poland. “This was by the silence of the Minsk government and their inspiration. Belarusians pushed migrants to the border to decision to Poland, to the European Union. I thank the officers of all services who defend the borders of Poland and the EU. Thank you, due to the fact that thanks to you, we have shown that we are doing our work honestly at the external borders of the EU," said Andrzej Duda.
The president besides mentioned soldier Matthew Sitk who died after an attack from 1 of the migrants. “ Unfortunately, this service did not go through without casualties. I'm reasoning about those who got hurt. But I think first of all About Sergeant Sitku, who has been the first to fall since planet War II, defending the border of our homeland “The Polish president stressed.
Andrzej Duda thanks and apologizes. “To impudence and rude countrymen”
He besides added that representatives of the Polish army and the SG not only defend the border, but besides aid in crisis situations. “You are here in the sinter as you are today, but besides during the large frosts in the cold of our country. Thank you for your intellectual immunity and for all man saved here. For you save lives for those who even illegally cross our borders, whether in the swamps or through rivers or in forests,” said Duda.
Finally, he made an apology to the soldiers and Border defender officers.
— I would like to apologize to you like the president of the Republic for all the sorrows you have suffered from various of our fellow countrymen: sometimes irresponsible, and sometimes simply brazen and rude, who dared to humiliate soldiers and officers who dared to harm Polish uniform and your honor. I want to assure you that a actual soldier's and service honor officer of the Republic of Poland is not able to disfigure if he performs his tasks for Poland, for which he swore an oath. Anyone who is honest has always been with you and stood a wall behind the Polish uniform – concluded president Andrzej Duda.
