Poland To Spend Around $2.5 Billion On Securing Eastern Border, Tusk Says

Poland will invest 10 billion zlotys ($2.55 billion) in a program to secure its eastern border, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on May 18. Tusk did not provide specifics but said the program would include fortifications and landscaping that will make the border impossible for a “potential enemy” to pass through.

Poland’s border with Belarus has been a flashpoint since migrants started flocking there in 2021 after Minsk began encouraging Middle Eastern migrants to travel to Belarus and then use the new route into Europe.

Warsaw and the European Union accused Minsk and Moscow of sending migrants to the border as part of an effort to destabilize Poland./Rferl/