Media: Polish police officers have been conducting a covert operation in Ukraine for more than five months

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Polish police officers ran a covert operation in Ukraine for more than five months
21:00, 23.02.2023

They were involved in demining the de-occupied territories.



The Polish daily Wirtualna Polska writes:

For five months, 98 Polish police officers took part in a top-secret mission in Ukraine. They de-mined areas from which the Russians had withdrawn.

The specialists arrived in Ukraine after Ukraine approached members of the ATLAS group, a police task force that brings together special anti-terrorist units of the European Union last year.

The publication also said:

The Ukrainian army does not have enough sappers, nor can military sappers from NATO countries, because this would be perceived by Russia as a provocation. The only option was to send police pyrotechnicians.

It is known that 98 specialists (sappers, paramedics, members of combat teams for mission protection and two dogs) went to Ukraine with their equipment in early October. The mission was designed for three months, but was extended for another three months in December.

The humanitarian mission cleared more than 342,000 square metres of territory and more than 17.5,000 square metres of roads, including the airport near Kiev and the de-occupied areas of Kiev Oblast and the Dnieper River.

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Oleg Kotov

Oleg Kotov writes about the war in Ukraine and how it is changing the world.