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Poland and the European Union have accused Belarus and Russia of trying to spread chaos since 2021 by pushing migrants over the frontier in what Warsaw calls a "hybrid war". Minsk and Moscow have ...
Poland will extend the implementation of a buffer zone on its border with Belarus for 90 days, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, adding that the measure had been effective in reducing illegal ...
Poland may reopen one border crossing with Belarus, the prime minister said on Friday, in a bid to help businesses in the country's east who have taken a hit from the closure of checkpoints due to ...
It said a total of 1,960 freight vehicles were currently waiting to cross from Belarus into EU territory - 600 into Poland, 530 at the single crossing into Latvia and 830 at two checkpoints on the ...
KYIV (Reuters) -Thousands of migrants were massing near the Belarus border on Monday, Polish authorities said, as European Union member states called for more sanctions against Minsk and security ...
Poland began work on the 5.5-meter (18 foot) high steel wall topped with barbed wire at a cost of around 1.6 billion zł (US$407m) aimed at blocking the passage of illegal migrants during the border crisis in the region artificially instigated by Belarus in the late summer of 2021. The barrier was completed on 30 June 2022.
On 24 November 2021, Human Rights Watch published a report "Die Here or Go to Poland: Belarus' and Poland's Shared Responsibility for Border Abuses" claiming "serious abuses on both sides of the border". HRW accused Belarusian border guards of violence, inhuman and degrading treatment and coercion, and Polish border guards — of pushing the ...
On 31 August 2021 the Council of Ministers requested President Andrzej Duda to declare a state of emergency in the terrain surrounding Belarus–Poland border.The request was motivated by – according to government – possible threats to security and public order in part of the territory of Poland.