Poland celebrates Armed Forces Day

President Andrzej Duda on Saturday laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Warsaw's Piłsudski Square, celebrating the Armed Forces Day, a national holiday, which commemorates the anniversary of the 1920 victory over Soviet Russia at the Battle of Warsaw during the Polish–Soviet War. Subesequently, Duda attended a large military parade through the Warsaw city's center. As many as 1,500 soldiers, 170 military vehicles and 60 jet fighters and helicopters participated in the parade. "I will do everything so that you have a sense that your homeland loves you as much as you love her," the president addressed the soldiers.  Duda was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, head of the National Security Bureau (BBN) Paweł Soloch and Polish army generals.