The Polish government has expanded its list of critical infrastructure to include border checkpoints, aiming to minimize disruptions from protests at the Polish-Ukrainian border, Rzeczpospolita ...

Watched by drones and guarded by a five-and-a-half-metre steel barrier, a border crossing near the Polish town of Połowce encapsulates the security challenges facing the EU, Poland has said.

Since 2021, Poland has established a border fence equipped with modern surveillance technology to prevent people from entering from Belarus. Rights activists accuse border guards of practicing a ...

[Alexandra Brzozowski/Euractiv] POŁOWCE, Poland — Poland’s ... protected by some 13,000 border guards and soldiers, is a striking manifestation of a new hybrid warfare. The wall erected ...

"Our top priority is to stop this artificially created migration route and not to allow people to cross the border illegally," Maciej Duszczyk, Poland's deputy minister for interior, told a group ...

of border. It’s become a buffer zone since Belarus’ ally, Russia, invaded neighboring Ukraine three years ago. Similar fortifications farther north line Poland's frontier with the Russian region of ...

Doctors Without Borders says this could have “dramatic consequences.” It’s urged Poland “to drastically change course of action” and do all it can to protect migrants and refugees.

However, illegal migrants bused to the border by Russian and Belarusian authorities increasingly use garden ladders to scale the wall and get into Poland.

Doctors Without Borders says this could have “dramatic consequences.” It’s urged Poland “to drastically change course of action" and do all it can to protect migrants and refugees.

Polish border guards look east into Belarus at the crossing point Połowce-Pieszczatka in Polowce, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Lorne Cooke “We have tightened our visa policy ...