That’s it from the Ukraine live blog for today. Thanks for following along.
For a summary of the day’s events, see this afternoon’s summary here.
Poland said it will send 500 police to shore up security at its border with Belarus to cope with rising numbers of migrants crossing as well as any potential threats after the Wagner group of mercenaries relocates to Belarus.
“Due to the tense situation on the border with Belarus I have decided to bolster our forces with 500 Polish police officers from preventive and counter-terrorism units,” minister of Interior Mariusz Kaminski wrote on his Twitter account.
The police force would join 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers in securing the border, he said.
Poland has accused Belarus of artificially creating a migrant crisis on the border since 2021 by flying in people from the Middle East and Africa and attempting to push them across the frontier, Reuters reported.
