A solider injured nine days ago in a knife attack on Poland's border with Belarus has died.
Doctors were unable to save his life, the leadership of the Polish armed forces announced on Thursday.
According to the army, a migrant attacked and seriously injured a soldier with a knife at the border fence at the beginning of last week. He was initially taken to a local hospital and operated on there but later had to be transferred to a hospital in Warsaw.
The incident is making waves in Poland. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced shortly after the knife attack that Poland would once again set up a 200-metre-wide cordon on its border with Belarus, which is also an external European Union border.
Poland and the EU accuse Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko of deliberately bringing migrants from crisis-hit regions to the EU's external border in order to exert pressure on the West.
In the summer of 2022, Poland secured the border with Belarus with a 5.5-metre-high fence and an electronic surveillance system. Following the construction of the fence, a previously established 3-kilometre-wide restricted zone along the border was lifted.
Even since the border fortifications were erected, migrants have attempted to cross the EU's external border on a daily basis.