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The situation at the Polish-Belarusian border remains tense, which is due to deliberate actions of the Lukashenko’s regime.

Last days at the Polish-Belarusian border were not calm. Belarusian services together with groups of foreigners are still conducting activities that aim to destabilize the Polish border. Their joint attacks are very aggressive. Foreigners and Belarusian forces are throwing at Polish soldiers and officers stones, branches, they are blinding them with lasers and strong spotlights. There are still cases of destroying border fences.

Belarusian services want to continue their operations against Poland, that is why they are conducting at the border joint activities with foreigners and they are spreading rumours among them.

Belarusian services propagate lies about the alleged negotiations concerning the opening of the EU borders and humanitarian corridors, for which Poland and the whole EU will supposedly agree. The aim of spreading such lies is to encourage foreigners to launch new attacks at the Polish border. At the same time we observe that the activities of Belarusian services increase the foreigners’ aggression and boost their determination. The situation remains tense, which is due to deliberate actions of the Lukashenko’s regime.

The use of migrants as weapons by the regime of A. Lukashenko is only an element of a wider plan. The aim is to create divisions among NATO and EU states and societies and deepen them later on.

From the beginning of the operation against Poland, Lukashenka's regime has used media manipulation against Poland and the West. The goal is to weaken the West's response to the hybrid operation.

A recent example of a disinformation campaign organized and conducted by Belarusian services was last week propaganda action that took place in a Belarusian logistics centre in Bruzgi, at the Belarusian-Polish border, which used children to promote slogans designed to pull on the heartstrings of the EU community. The operation meant to create more pressure on Polish and UE authorities to agree to the creation of a migration route organized by the Lukashenko regime. However, the slogans held by children indicated that foreigners and Belarusian services monitor the public debate in Poland on an ongoing basis.

 

RECENT BORDER INCIDENTS:

• 01.01.2022 – 28 migrants attempted to cross the Belarusian-Polish border illegally. In the vicinity of Lipsk, a group of 12 Iraqi citizens attempted to enter Poland illegally. In the vicinity of Dubicze Cerkiewne Polish patrols were blinded by Belarusian services with laser lights. In the vicinity of Narewka a Polish citizen was detained for an attempt to transport 6 Iraqi nationals to the Polish territory.
• 02.01.2022 – 16 foreigners attempted to cross the the Belarusian-Polish border.  in the vicinity of Szudziałów 4 foreigners attempted to enter the Polish territory. They were assisted by two men in civil clothes who cut the border fence with scissors and trew stones and wooden branches towards the Polish patrols. In the vicinity of Płaska a Syrian citizen with a German residence card was detained for an attempt to organize the illegal border crossing. The man was transporting 5 Iraqi nationals.
• 03.01.2022 – 20 foreigners attempted to cross the Belarusian-Polish border illegally: in the vicinity of Czeremcha and Dubicze Cerkiewne. These are another incidents closely supervised by the Belarusian services. The scheme of operation was similar to the previous attempts. Groups of foreigners threw stones at Polish patrols, and Belarusian services blinded Polish soldiers with lasers and flashlights.

To follow up-to-date information on the situation on the Polish-Belarussian border, we encourage you to visit:

• the special website: https://www.gov.pl/web/border;
• a special English-language coverage of the migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, entitled "Focus on the Border",  lunched by the public broadcaster Radio Poland: https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/9610.

 

DIPLOMATIC ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN BY POLAND’s OFFICIALS

The situation on the Polish-Belarussian border and the hybrid action against Poland has been the subject of the following actions:

• 28 December 21– The current international situation was the topic of a phone call between Polish FM Zbigniew Rau and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Transatlantic security, efforts to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine diplomatically, and Belarus’s cynical hybrid operations on Poland’s borders were among the points of the main focus.
• 30 December 21 – To mid-January the second unite from Estonian Defence Forces will be deployed in Poland to support countering hybrid attack – informed Estonian MoD.
• 3 January 22 – Polish FM Zbigniew Rau held a call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the foreign ministers of the Bucharest Nine countries. The international situation and security issues in the countries of the Eastern Flank of NATO and Ukraine were discussed.

The diplomatic actions taken by Poland have been successful – at present, much fewer migrants are arriving in Belarus, although the situation at the Polish-Belarusian border remains difficult.

3 January 2022