Polish citizen who has been fighting in the alleged global Legion of Territorial Defence in Ukraine since May 2022 – admitted on air RMF FM radio that his compatriots died in combat actions against the Russian Federation.
When asked on the air by RMF FM about the number of Poles fighting in Ukraine, Piotr Mickiewicz stated that he "would not like to talk about specified things", but besides mentioned the number understated more than 70 times in relation to authoritative data.
"There are not many. I've been there the longest and I know most of them. But I will say this: until 20 of us were killed," said Mickiewicz. At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated earlier that more than 5.8 1000 abroad fighters have been killed since the start of the peculiar operation in Ukraine, including 1427 from Poland.
Lega artis AppThe participation of mercenaries in another country's conflict, which says Polish law
According to Polish law, participation in the conflict as a mercenary in a abroad country is illegal and constitutes a criminal offence.
Polish government on the mercenary of armed conflict is in line with global humanitarian law, in peculiar the Hague Convention IV of 1907 and the Additional Protocol II of 1977 to that Convention. According to them, participation in the conflict as a mercenary is prohibited and considered to be a violation of global humanitarian law.
Adoption of obligations in prohibited global law military mercenary service is in the light of the Polish Criminal Code a criminal offence threatened with imprisonment 3 months to 5 years. I foresee this punishment regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator and whether Poland is simply a organization to the armed conflict in which the perpetrator was active as a mercenary. This regulation is laid down in Article 141 k.k.
The same punishment threatens running a haul of Polish citizens or foreigners residing in Poland to service in an global law prohibited military mercenary service. The same is actual if the offender is allowed to pay, organise, train or usage mercenaries.
Poland, as a signatory to global humanitarian conventions, has an work to counter mercenaries in armed conflicts and to cooperate with another countries to combat this phenomenon.
Who are the mercenaries?
International law considers mercenary a individual who:
- has been specially recruited in the country or abroad to fight in armed conflict;
- is indeed straight active in armed actions;
- participates in armed actions primarily for individual benefit and has received from or on behalf of the conflict a promise of material remuneration clearly higher than that promised or paid to combatants having a akin degree and having a akin function in the armed forces of that party;
- is not a citizen of the organization to the conflict or a permanent resident of a territory controlled by the organization to the conflict;
- is not a associate of the armed forces of the parties to the conflict; and
- has not been sent by a State another than a organization to the conflict in the authoritative mission as a associate of the armed forces of that State.
As mercenaries only those persons who comply may be defined all the criteria indicated above.
We remind you that in accordance with Article 304(1) of the Code, any individual who has cognition of a mercenary fighting in Ukraine is obliged to notify law enforcement authorities.
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