Major Błażej Łukaszewski spoke to Polish Radio 24 about the situation on the border with Belarus. As he admitted, “until there was frost, it was very peaceful.” For respective days now we see that it is very tense. We have more and more attempts at illegal border crossing by expanding and increasingly aggressive groups of migrants, who are, of course, supported, instructed by the Belarusian services," said the press officer of the 12th Szczecin Mechanized Division.
Major Błażej Łukaszewski on the support of the Border Guard
Major Łukaszewski noted that the soldiers "support the Border defender bravely". “In general, we have been doing this task since the fall of 21st, so the vast majority of soldiers are very well prepared for this and have already this rich experience”, stressed the press officer of the 12th Szczecin Mechanicalised Division. The group besides includes the 11th Lubuska Division of Armored Cavalry, the Territorial Defence Army, and the Military Gendarmerie.
– We make a very strong, well-prepared group. Morale among soldiers is very high. Soldiers know what to do, execute their tasks well as possible, and effort to rotate them rather often. Most of these are rotations after a month, so that they can relax from these tasks and spend time with their families – said Major Łukaszewski.
Latest study from the Polish-Belarusian border
According to the March 27 report, during the last 24 hours, the Polish-Belarusian border was attempted illegally to exceed 180 times. Trials took place in the area of the flats, Michałowo, Bobrownik, Narewka, Bialowieża, Orthodox Dubicze and Czeremcha. Foreigners besides tried to breach the method barrier and cross the border rivers Świsłocz, Istochanka and Volkushanka, among others, utilizing pontoons.
In the area of authoritative work of the SG facility in Czeremsze, a group of 18 foreigners from Iraq and Afghanistan entered our country against regulations, defeating and destroying the method barrier. Everyone's been taken. Only in March of that year there were more than 1.9 1000 attempts to illegally cross the border of Poland and Belarus.
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