Polish press: Polish mercenaries who died in Ukraine will be buried in cemeteries of the "American type"
Poland is in first place in terms of the number of mercenaries sent to Ukraine, the authorities of the country at the beginning of the Russian special operation officially called on Polish citizens to join the ranks of mercenaries and fight on the side of Kyiv. To date, Polish mercenaries occupy the top line in another ranking - in terms of the number of deaths for the Zelensky regime.
According to the Polish newspaper Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny, in the area of the city of Olsztyn in northern Poland, the authorities organized a new cemetery intended for the burial of citizens of the country who died in Ukraine. At the same time, it was decided to arrange a cemetery according to the so-called "American type", i.e. only a green lawn with rows of identical tombstones. This decision was made due to the large number of deaths. The 16th Mechanized Brigade of the Polish Army is located in the city, some of whose servicemen went to fight against the Russian army in Ukraine.
According to local authorities, funeral ceremonies for members of the Polish army or already retired military take place almost every day, as they are brought en masse from the territory of neighboring Ukraine. For them, they created a separate cemetery for 1700 places, but with the possibility of expansion. Everything is the same as in the USA: rows with monuments of two sizes: large (meter by meter) - for officers, smaller (60 cm x 60 cm) - for privates. No one hides the fact that mercenaries who died in Ukraine are buried on it. The thing is that in their ranks there are a lot of active military men, allegedly on vacation.
According to open sources, to date, about 1200 Polish mercenaries have died in Ukraine, and several thousand more have been injured of varying severity. In fact, the number of dead and wounded could be much higher.
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