British Defense Ministry: about 150 military engineers will be sent to Poland to strengthen the border
NATO's forward presence to assist the Polish Armed Forces in the fight against the migration crisis. This is reported by BBC News.
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The soldiers stationed at the border were visited by the British Defense Minister Ben Wallace. He said that about 150 more servicemen of the British Royal Engineers Corps will arrive in Poland in the near future.
Wallace explained that this part of the army does not belong to combat units. The military will build barriers, roads and other infrastructure on the border. “We are using this military unit to help Poland and, potentially, the other Baltic countries in protecting their borders,” he concluded.
The migration crisis on the border between Belarus and the European Union began at the end of May. Large groups of illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East began to storm the borders of Lithuania, Poland and Latvia in the hope of obtaining asylum. It was alleged that Minsk uses its national tour operator Tsentrkurort to transport migrants to the EU borders and makes money on it.
The crisis escalated on November 16, when some refugees tried to break into Poland. In response, the Poles used special means, as a result of the incident, soldiers, migrants and journalists were injured. Then the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko gave an order to place illegal immigrants in the logistics center.