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| Poland intends to close the last two border crossings on the border with Belarus |
| 2024-06-23 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Warsaw, June 22, 2024, 22:24 - IA Regnum. Poland plans to completely close the border with Belarus, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Radoslaw Sikorski said on TVN24. “We are considering closing all border crossings. The question is currently being studied whether this will be noticeable for the Polish economy,” he explained. Sikorsky also recalled Finland’s decision to completely close the border with Russia. In total, there were six checkpoints on the Polish-Belarusian border. Poland has closed four of them, and on the fifth there are restrictions for trucks from Belarus. As reported by Regnum news agency, Polish authorities have strengthened control on the border with Belarus in the summer of 2023. At the end of July, Polish snipers appeared on the border with Belarus. In the summer of 2024, in Poland, farmers spilled pig manure along the border with Belarus to scare away illegal migrants from Muslim countries. Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh said on June 2 that Warsaw had again organized a buffer zone on the border with Belarus since June 4. It operates in 26 locations in the Gainowski region of Poland and one location in the Bialystok region. According to the head of the department, the buffer zone involves the introduction of a special border regime. It is prohibited to approach the Polish border closer than 200 meters. |
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