REPORTING. "We might be next on the list" : with the war in Ukraine, Poland is recruiting more and more volunteers into the army
Cairo: Hani Kamal El-Din
The Poles want to prepare for war. On the shooting range, volunteers of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Polish Army train with war weapons. Aleksandr is 29 years. For four years he has been coming at least one weekend a month to train here. He wants to be ready: “With this type of training I can improve my skills and today I am sure I am ready to shoot weapons.”
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the state has hoped that more and more Poles would sign up. For this, he also increased the salaries of these volunteers. Lieutenant Colonel Grzegorz Podolszański is the deputy commander of the 5th Mazovia Territorial Defense Brigade.
He seems happy with the changes : “Today, more than 40 000 people are trained in the use of weapons, know how to shoot, provide first aid and behave in various emergency situations.”
The war in Ukraine is a trigger for these volunteers. In a forest, in the rain and in the cold, Stanislaw, a civilian archaeologist, trains in combat tactics. Today he is learning how to react if one of his comrades is injured by a mine.
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