[NorseViking]

Reporting on Czeczko's defection, Polish media argued that his story, including the two purported deaths, is part of the narrative that Lukashenko has put forth throughout the crisis. Tadeusz Giczan, a journalist from banned Belarusian news site NEXTA and lobbyist at the NATO-funded CEPA, also accused officials of using Czeczko for propaganda purposes.

The 16th Mechanized Division issued a statement Friday morning confirming that a soldier was missing and stating that a search was underway. Later in the day, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak tweeted that the missing soldier had serious problems and had previously requested to leave the army, writing, "he should never have been assigned for service at the border" and promising an investigation.

In November, an American citizen named Evan Neumann told RT he had decided to seek asylum in Belarus because he was wanted in the US for involvement in storming the Capitol building in Washington on January 6. Neumann said he had crossed into Belarus on foot from Ukraine, where he had previously fled, because he was afraid of possible extradition by American authorities.

[Berlin_Freeper]

This is why you wait until the shooting starts to put the crazies on the front line.

[Seruzawa]

[dynachrome]

Cowardice in the face of the enemy?

[Navy Patriot]

Interesting, certainly Polish troops are much more harsh in their treatment of “migrants” than ICE or Border Patrol are allowed to be.