"The Border Guard has launched the digital barrier on the border rivers Svisloch and Istoczanka. The digital barrier upgrade, along the existing technical barrier, has been completed as well" - the ministry posted on X.
Poland's Interior and Administration Ministry spokesman, Jacek Dobrzyński, reported on Saturday that the number of foreigners trying to illegally enter Poland via Belarus has recently increased. At the same time, he assured that approaches to the barrier, and even more so attempts to illegally cross, are detected immediately by the Polish Border Guard and other forces involved.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Friday that the government will soon launch an information campaign in seven countries from which the largest number of migrants trying to illegally cross the Polish border come. "Our message will be simple: the Polish border is airtight" - he emphasized.
A 5.5 m high steel technical barrier built in 2022 stands on Poland's 186 km of the border with Belarus. It is the main element securing it against illegal migration, and it is supplemented by the so-called digital barrier - a monitoring system covering the technical barrier and the border rivers. Both technical and digital barriers were already updated in 2024, but as the weaponized migration pressure from Belarus mounts - Poland has to constantly repair the damages, upgrade the monitoring and tighten the border security.
For a long period now, weaponized migration has been used by Moscow and its minions to destabilise the European Union, using the naivety of asylum seekers and the goodwill of international lawmakers alike. In response, on March 27 Poland's new regulation temporarily withholding the right to submit asylum applications came into force. The restriction is limited to the border crossings with Belarus and Russia - and initially it will be active for 60 days, with an option to extend it for another 60 if the Parliament consents.
Since 2020 at least, thousands of desperate people from the global South are lured into paying significant amounts to come to Russia and Belarus for what they think is a safe passage into the EU. Then, they find themselves brutally and illegally pushed across the borders. This life-threatening process is organised, supervised and motivated with violence by the special services and other forces of Moscow and Minsk.
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Source: PAP, IAR