Polish soldiers intercept weapons smuggled into Macedonia by Albanians

Soldiers of the joint Polish-Ukrainian battalion in Kosovo on Friday intercepted a consignment of weapons being smuggled in from Macedonia by members of the Albanian National Army (AKSH). During their flight to Macedonia, the Albanians left sacks containing five Kalashnikov automatic rifles, along with howitzer shells and ammunition. A day earlier commander of the AKSH, code-named "Eagle", had accused the Poles and Ukrainians of "disseminating anxiety and provoking his soldiers to fight," and demanded that they leave the border area near Globocica. However, US army colonel Anthony Tata, commander of the operational group "East" under KFOR command in Kosovo, said the battalion will remain where it is. "The Poles are doing their job," he said in an interview with Rzeczpospolita. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) P.W.