{"id":89575,"date":"2024-06-07T21:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/89575\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"polish-soldier-stabbed-at-belarus-border-posthumously-rewarded","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/89575\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish soldier stabbed at Belarus border posthumously rewarded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n (1st Warsaw Armored Brigade on Facebook)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

June 7, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Mateusz Sitek, 21, a private of the 1st Warsaw Armored Brigade, has been posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Merit for National Defense, the brigade said on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was also promoted to the rank of sergeant by decision of Defense Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sitek was stabbed by an unidentified man in late May and died at Military Medical Institute in Warsaw yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 28, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland sent additional troops to seal its border with Belarus following the incident there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Polish foreign ministry protested to the Belarusian charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In turn, the Belarusian foreign office accused Warsaw of “excessive politicization.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis on the border between Belarus and the European Union has been ongoing since the spring of 2021. The authorities of Poland and the Baltic States consider it a hybrid attack organized by the regimes of Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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