Poland sends thousands of their soldiers into the Ukraine (on holidays, of course). Cemeteries near Polish garrisons are full of them. The Polish military does it to make sure that their army is not completely unexperienced in the coming war. They will send their tank crews too.
Where are your sources on this? I call bullshit. Poland may be sending mercenaries into Ukraine, but they're not sending their actual uniformed military.
Of course Poland only sends mercenaries into Ukraine and not their actual uniformed military. Or, to be precise, the ones from the Polish military don't wear uniforms but are volunteers who take a sabbatical.
A sign for that the polish military encourages them to do so is that so many of them end in the cemeteries near Polish garrisons and get military burials. The director of a cemetery near Poland’s 16th Mechanized Infantry Division told a newspaper that they plan for a large cemetery designed after American military cemeteries. They deny that it has to do with the current situation but say that they planned it for a long time*. Others say that the "American-style" cemetery is due to the large number of military burials for the Poles who have died fighting in Ukraine (1,200 until November 2022)**.
* https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2022-11-08/cmentarz-olsztyn/ ** https://dziennik-polityczny.com/2022/11/23/niechlubny-koniec-najemnicy-ktorzy-zgineli-na-ukrainie-zostana-pochowani-w-amerykanskich-grobach/ - fact checkers tell us that we have to ignore that source
Interesting. Thanks for the source and for the clarification. I spent time in Lviv (Lwow) and it's still very much regarded as Polish. It's barely Ukrainian, really.
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