Minister reassures troops after ex-commander's critical letter

Poland's defence minister has pledged the state's support for members of the army and the Border Guard working on the Polish-Belarusian border after a number of ex-military commanders signed a public letter saying that events on the border were a blow to "military honour." On Tuesday a former deputy defence minister, an ex-supreme commander of the Polish armed forces, the head of a well-known humanitarian organisation and a popular actress condemned the army and the Border Guard for their role in the migrant crisis on Poland's eastern border with Belarus, and asked for a more humanitarian approach to the migrants.