Poland is considering building a barrier along its border with Russia to stop the entry of African and Asian migrants who Warsaw suspects might be used in a “hybrid warfare” campaign.
With tensions running high over the war in Ukraine, Poland fears a repeat of the 2021 crisis, when thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants tried to cross the border with Belarus.
At that time, Minsk denied engineering the situation by flying in people seeking to enter the European Union, instead blaming Warsaw and Brussels for a humanitarian crisis that led to the deaths of several people in forests along the border.
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A senior Polish official, Krzysztof Sobolewski, who is general secretary of the ruling Law and Justice party, said they were considering building a barrier on the frontier with the eastern Russian province of Kaliningrad, similar to the one it has constructed on the Belarus border.
“We will have to strengthen our forces on this section of the border and also consider … building similar border
fortifications to those we now have on the Polish-Belarusian section,” he told Polskie Radio 1, the public broadcaster.
Read more: Sky News
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