Thursday's media review; the Netherlands will let the F-16 to strike targets in Russia; Police will support soldiers on the border with Belarus

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**Wojciech Czuchnowski Maciej Chołodowski: Gazeta Wyborcza: “No protective vest”**
"From the north from Wednesday to Thursday at the Polish-Belarusian border the buffer region will apply again, they will not be able to enter it by smallpox. According to our informants, killed on the Polish-Belarusian border, Sergeant Mateusz Sitek was not wearing a alleged light vest to defend against knife blows. Most soldiers patrolling the area are missing specified equipment. June 11th, the evening edition of “Dots Over I” (TVN 24). Monika Olejnik asks: _Did the soldier have a vest?_ Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish, Deputy Prime Minister, head of the MON: _This is besides the subject of the prosecution's investigation, according to my cognition that yes_. Sources contradict Kosiniak-Kamisha _Or the head of the MON is being misled or knowingly lying. The fallen soldier was not wearing a vest to defend against, among others, a knife blow. His words confirm 2 more sources straight related to the formations (Boundary Guard, military) guarding the barrier at the border. It's a alleged light vest, informally called a "scissor vest". erstwhile we ask the spokesperson for the MON Janusz Seymej, he is going with the minister to the sergeant's funeral. He tells us: _We have information that a soldier was wearing a bulletproof vest. Apart from the difference between light and dense vests, protecting against bullets and shrapnel (light is much cheaper and more useful erstwhile confronted with smugglers), this means that MON is certain of this version. Only what is “the subject of the prosecution’s investigation” then? I don't know. Sergeant Sitek was stabbed on 28 May, died on 6 June. However, since the end of February, MON has been moving an operation codenamed "Speak". It is designed to equip border guards with flashlights, night imagination goggles, peculiar clothing, protective equipment, including shields and light vests. The second are so far "imitable quantities". Previously independent media had warned that soldiers thrown at the border were retrofitting on their own, buying better quality gloves, shoes or reflection devices.”
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