Poland will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its eastern border with neighboring Belarus, a deputy interior minister said on August 9, as a record number of migrants try to cross. "This will not be a reinforcement of 1,000 but of 2,000 soldiers," Maciej Wasik told the PAP state news agency, adding that the move was approved by the defense minister following a request from the national border agency for extra manpower. The troops are slated to be deployed within two weeks and will join the 2,000 soldiers already stationed near the border.
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