Poland will fortify its border with Russia’s ally Belarus as early as next week in response to what Warsaw says is a “ruthless hybrid war” waged by Moscow to destabilise its western neighbours.
Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister who visited the Belarus border on Wednesday, announced the reintroduction of a buffer zone at the frontier to stop illegal migrants being pushed into the EU by Russia.
Tusk has made stronger border security a priority since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, recently pledging to spend 10bn zlotys ($2.5bn) to fortify Poland’s borders with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and make them “impregnable” to an attack.