{"id":6371,"date":"2023-08-09T21:46:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2023-08-09T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:46:07","slug":"poland-to-send-additional-2000-troops-to-belarus-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/poland-to-send-additional-2000-troops-to-belarus-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland to send additional 2,000 troops to Belarus border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poland will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its eastern border with neighbouring Belarus, a deputy interior minister said Wednesday, as a record number of migrants try to cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This will not be a reinforcement of 1,000 but of 2,000 soldiers,&#8221; Maciej Wasik told the PAP state news agency, adding that the move was approved by the defence minister following a request from the national border agency for extra manpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The troops are slated to be deployed within two weeks and will join the 2,000 soldiers already stationed near the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland has recently warned of the threat of provocations from Belarus and potential dangers posed by the Wagner mercenary group based there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warsaw has also accused Belarus and Russia of orchestrating a new migration influx into the European Union in order to destabilise the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wasik on Wednesday added that all attempts of illegal crossings into Poland through that route are staged by the Belarusian services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If on the other side we had real border guards, and not smuggling officers, these crossings wouldn&#8217;t exist at all,&#8221; Wasik said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Polish border guard, 19,000 migrants have tried to enter Poland from Belarus so far this year, compared to 16,000 during all of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month alone, more than 4,000 migrants tried to cross the border.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its eastern border with neighbouring Belarus, a deputy interior minister said Wednesday, as a record number of migrants try to cross. &#8220;This will not be a reinforcement of 1,000 but of 2,000 soldiers,&#8221; Maciej Wasik told the PAP state news agency, adding that the move was [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2,73,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}