Construction of the wall, round-the-clock work of thousands of officers of many services, acquisition of equipment and equipment for them, maintenance of respective centres for illegal immigrants – the protection of the Polish-Belarusian border is increasingly costly – informs the paper citing fresh reports Politico. "A fewer days ago, the Politico portal revealed that Prime Minister Donald Tusk told high-level politicians in the European Union that "the usage of migrants by Russia and Belarus costs Poland 600 million euros a year", i.e. over PLN 2.5 billion.
Republic of She asked the Ministry of the Interior a question about this. Deputy Chief of the Ministry, Czesław Mroczek, confirmed this amount.
That's the real amount. The ongoing safety at this border is increasingly costly – said Mroczek.
The situation is uncertain
On the Polish-Belarusian border, 8,000 soldiers and officers of the Police and Border defender are rotated. The Ministry of National Defence estimates that costs could be PLN 850 million. As he emphasizes Republic of, the European Union has allocated EUR 67 million to Poland, which represents only half of the amount requested to build a dam in wetlands.
This year Frontex posted to the border to the Terespol Border defender Service only 4 officers.
Border defender signed contracts in July to strengthen the steel and electronic barrier, including additional cameras and lighting. The work is in progress, and the Head of BBN reported that 1 lateral safety belt was installed per 100 km of the border barrier, and 2 lanes per 70 km. The advanced transverse belt is located at half the tallness of the barrier and the blade wire will be mounted to it. The second belt is lower. Both belts are designed to prevent arching attempts in the dam.
Head of the NSA at the border
The head of the National safety Bureau, Jacek Siewara, recalled that the first hybrid actions inspired by Russia and Belarus on the Polish-Belarusian border took place in 2021, erstwhile these countries began utilizing migrants as a weapon to attack the borders of the Republic of Poland, but besides the EU's external border.
There will be many more natural disasters over the coming decades; crises, political tensions, disputes, but let this barrier be a physical proof that we must not lose focus of sight, we must not forget which direction the top threat to Poland comes from. We must not lose sight of this threat. said Minister Siewara during his last visit to the Polish-Belarusian border in Polowce.
During the discussion with the media, the minister besides referred to the Prime Minister's announcements about the multiannual migration strategy.
Despite the differences that have occurred in erstwhile years, despite the deep divisions that any utmost environments are trying to make in Polish society today, this barrier as both physical and method symbol will besides become 1 of the pillars and indicators of the Polish migration policy, a strong, unequivocal message of opposition to the instrumentalisation of illegal migration – said Siewara.
