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Russias’ Spear-Throwing Migrants Killing Guards to Break Through EU Borders
Russias’ Spear-Throwing Migrants Killing Guards to Break Through EU Borders
EU Border Under Siege as Guard Killed by Spear-Throwing Migrants Sent by Vladimir Putin
BBC 16 JUL 2024
Sgt Mateusz Sitek EU Border Guard is Killed by Spear-Throwing Migrants
A young Polish border guard was killed by a makeshift spear hurled at him from the Belarusian side of the border, it has been revealed, in what is being characterised as the latest example of Vladimir Putin's "hybrid war" on the West.
Sgt Mateusz Sitek, from the village of Nowy Lubiel died after several projectiles were hurled through a five-metre high steel fence, with several of his colleagues also injured.
A shocking clip circulating online shows another incident in which a similar spear flies through a fence, missing another border guard by inches.
Polish officials, who believe migrants are being sent to their border from its Russia-allied neighbour with the tacit encouragement of Vladimir Putin as a way of weaponising the situation.
Earlier this week, Polish Defence Minister Wadysaw Kosiniak-Kamysz warned: "There is a hybrid war ongoing on the Poland-Belarus border."
Mr Sitek died on May 28 in an early-morning attack. Speaking at his funeral, attended by among others Poland's President Andzrej Duda, one person told The Daily Telegraph the 21-year-old was "a very, very good boy".
Since April this year, 370 police officers have stopped at least 537 people trying to cross the border illegally, said Pawel Zabrocki, chief of police in the town of Hajnowka.
A Syrian migrant on the Belarusian side of the border wall with Poland
There are also concerns that mercenaries from the notorious private army the Wagner Group are among those slipping across the border.
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