Mateusz Sitek was the name of a 21-year-old Polish soldier who died after being wounded by migrants on the border with Belarus.
Mateusz was a private in the 1st Warsaw Tank Brigade. His farewell will take place on June 12, the brigade said.
By the decision of the Minister of Defense Wladyslaw Kosinyak-Kamysz, the serviceman was posthumously promoted to the rank of senior sergeant, and also awarded the gold medal “For Merits in the defense of the country”.
As reported, Mateusz Sitek was stabbed on May 28 last week during the suppression of an attempt by a group of migrants to break through from the Belarusian side. The guy was hospitalized, he fell into a coma and, despite all the efforts of doctors, died.
The press secretary of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, Prosecutor Piotr Skiba, reported that “the death of Mateusz Sitek occurred as a result of a stab wound to the chest, followed by damage to the left lung and as a result of ischemic hypoxic damage to the central nervous system.”
This is the first Polish soldier who died in connection with the hybrid war waged by the regimes of Lukashenka and Putin.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus has received a note from the Polish side about the death of a Polish soldier at the border at the hands of a migrant. Foreign Ministry spokesman Anatol Glaz accepted the note, but accused the Polish side of “politicizing the issue and covering up the deaths of other military personnel on the border.”