- 21-year-old Mateusz Sitek was stabbed at the Polish border last month
A Polish border guard was killed last month by a group of spear-throwing migrants as they attempted to cross the border into Europe, as officials say a surge in arrivals through Belarus is Putin‘s latest war tactic against the West.
21-year-old Sgt Mateusz Sitek from the Polish village of Nowy Lubiel was killed after a group of migrants reportedly from Africa and the Middle East attempting to cross the Polish border hurled a volley of makeshift weapons at officers.
Several more were injured during the clash.
The improvised weapons appear to have been made out of tree branches and steel blades taped to the top.
Waves of migrants arriving at the gates of the EU via Belarus and meeting border guards with aggression is becoming increasingly more common.
Video shows moment migrants throw objects that appear to be spears as they clash with Polish border guards
Polish guards shield themselves as migrants hurl objects and weapons at them at the Polish border
Videos that recently surfaced on TikTok show groups of migrants throwing objects at Polish soldiers, who can be heard shouting at them and shielding themselves from the flying weapons.
Another clip shows the moment smoke wafts across across a field as Polish soldiers return fire at the migrants, who all appear to be wearing face coverings.
These clashes come just a month after the death of Sitek, who was stabbed in the chest by a migrant who reached through the bars of the border.
Chilling footage showed the soldier lying motionless on the ground next to a border fence, as a colleague tended to him before emergency services arrived.
The soldier had been hospitalised with serious injuries in the town of Hajnowka, but died later the same day.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk took to X, formerly Twitter, to offer his condolences to the fallen soldier’s family.
Polish EU border guard Sgt Mateusz Sitek was killed last month after being stabbed by a migrant trying to cross the Polish border with a makeshift spear
Image captures moment emergency services tended to Sitek, who was stabbed by a migrant at the Polish border last month
The Polish border agency has shared images of the makeshift weapons used by migrants to attack border guards. They appear to be made out of sticks and taped-on tape
‘A young soldier, Mateusz, gave his life in the defense of Poland’s border.
‘The motherland and his compatriots will never forget about this sacrifice. I extend words of deepest sympathy to his family’.
The situation at the European Union’s eastern border is increasingly under pressure from thousands of people from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, trying to force their way through a metal barrier that Poland put up in 2022 to seal the frontier.
The increasing waves of migrants arriving at the gates of the EU via Belarus are moving with the quiet helping hand of Russia, Polish officials believe, in President Vladimir Putin’s latest war tactic against the West.
Latest figures from the Polish Border Guard say there have been some 17,000 attempts at illegally crossing the border this year.
The situation at the European Union’s eastern border is increasingly under pressure from thousands of people from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, trying to force their way through a metal barrier that Poland put up in 2022 to seal the frontier
This is not the first time Putin has used migrants as a weapons against the West.
The Russian military is pushing the migrants towards the border as a cruel form of Hybrid warfare, the Telegraph reported.
Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen even said that Russia is ‘actively helping’ migrants travel to the border.
According to Polish officials, about 90% of the migrants at Poland’s border have Russian visas.