Minsk reinforces customs shifts to ease traffic after Poland border reopening

September 24, Pozirk. The Belarusian State Customs Committee (SCC) will deploy additional staff to border crossings with Poland following yesterday’s announcement that the border will reopen in the early hours of September 25.

According to the agency, the measure is intended to speed up the clearance of trains, trucks, cars, and buses. The Belarusian side also announced it would begin customs clearance of outbound vehicles at rail and road crossings two hours before the official reopening.

Poland closed all checkpoints along its border with Belarus on September 12, citing security risks linked to the Zapad-2025 military exercise that began the same day. Earlier, Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said the border would only reopen once Warsaw was confident Belarus posed no direct threat to Poland or its citizens.

On September 25, Poland is set to reopen two checkpoints on the Belarusian-Polish border: Brest for passenger traffic and Kazłovičy for cargo.

The Bobrowniki crossing, however, has remained closed since February 2023. Warsaw has tied its reopening to the release of Polish minority activist Andrzej Poczobut, sentenced in Belarus to eight years in prison in a case widely regarded as politically motivated.

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Poland may close its border again if tensions mount

September 23, Pozirk. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that such leverage as closing the border remains at Warsaw’s disposal. Should the need arise, if tensions grow or the aggressive behavior of “some neighbors” increases, the government will not …

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