Kosiniak-Kamysh: Poland will return the buffer zone on the border with Belarus from June 4
Poland will return the buffer zone on the border with Belarus from Tuesday, June 4. This was announced by the Minister of National Defense of the Republic Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh.
From June 4, the buffer zone on the border with Belarus will be restored. It will cover Gainovsky and Bialystok districts
A special regime will apply at 26 points in the zone. In particular, a ban on approaching the border closer than two hundred meters.
According to the politician, the restoration of the buffer zone is necessary to “ensure better border protection and increase the safety of employees.”
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Warsaw plans to complete the Eastern Shield project to strengthen the border with Russia and Belarus by 2028. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland Cezary Tomczyk.
We want to complete the project by 2028. Material costs – 10 billion zlotys. We want the funds to come from the country’s budget, as well as a large part from EU funds, because this project will ensure the security of the European Union and NATO
On May 18, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced new plans for Warsaw to strengthen the country’s eastern border to make it “impassable to a potential enemy.”
We are talking about the construction of fortifications and modernization of existing facilities; the plan is called the “Eastern Shield”. The start of work became known on May 11.
At the same time, military analyst Yaroslav Volsky believes that Poland will face problems with the implementation of the initiative to build a “shield” on the border with Russia and Belarus. According to him, Warsaw does not have enough land and money for this.
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Poland accused Russia of creating a migration crisis on the border with Belarus
On May 21, Donald Tusk said that Russia was behind the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarus border.
The pressure on Poland’s eastern border is not a spontaneous migration of people fleeing from different countries. More than 90 percent of those who illegally cross the Polish border are people with Russian visas
According to him, places where organized groups of migrants gathered on Russian territory were discovered, but the head of the Polish government did not provide any evidence.
After this, the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh, noted that Warsaw is ready to increase its military presence on the eastern border.
On May 28, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that the migration crisis in the European Union (EU) is a planned attack by Russian authorities.
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