(Bloomberg) — Poland plans to beef up security along its eastern borders amid threats from Belarus and Russia, prime minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday.
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“We have started intensive work on a modern fortification along the entire Polish border from the east,” he told soldiers and border guard personnel in a televised speech.
The visit comes after a Polish judge recently defected to Belarus and asked the country’s leader Alexander Lukashenko for political asylum. Tusk called for a parliamentary investigation into potential Russian and Belarusian interference in Polish politics.
Illegal crossings from Belarus to Poland have increased, according to Tusk, who accused the Russian ally of orchestrating an “in progress hybrid war” against Warsaw.
“This is the external border not only of Poland, but also of the European Union,” Tusk said.
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