Poland holds biggest security exercise in decades
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Thousand soldiers and 2,000 security personnel including policemen, firefighters and border guards are taking part in the biggest security exercises in Poland in over 40 years. The three-day training event taking place near Radom in central Poland will test the country’s first response personnel and troops reaction to emergencies, including radioactive threats, illegally crossing of the border and renegade aircraft among other scenarios.
“The exercises are aimed at finding our weaknesses and are not a show of force,” said Poland’s Interior Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz explaining that the training had been planned for some time and is not taking place right now because of the tensions in Ukraine.
“The situation on our border with Ukraine is very peaceful, … however we should be prepared for much worse scenarios than what we are currently experiencing,” Sienkiewicz added.
