{"id":117473,"date":"2024-12-10T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T09:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/117473\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"warsaw-announces-another-extension-of-border-area-entry-ban-at-belarus-border","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/117473\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw extends border area entry ban by 90 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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December 10, Pozirk. <\/em><\/strong>The Polish government has extended a border area entry ban at the shared border with Belarus by another 90 days, the Polish interior ministry\u2019s press office reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially introduced on June 13, the ban restricted access to some areas along about 60 km of the Polish-Belarusian border in Podlaskie Voivodeship. In some sections, restricted area is 200 meters wide, while in the Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest its width is up to two kilometers. The ban does not apply to towns and tourist routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interior ministry praised the effectiveness of the ban, noting Poland recorded 11,200 illegal border crossing attempts from June 13 to December 5, 41 percent fewer than six months before the ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since January, the ban has helped arrest at least 585 people suspected of facilitating illegal migration, including 274 Ukrainians, 82 Poles, 50 Belarusians and 30 Georgians. Of these, 153 remain in custody, the ministry noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border started in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent migrants from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warsaw sees the crisis as a \u201chybrid war\u201d against Poland, organized and coordinated by Minsk and Moscow. Earlier, Poland constructed a 186-km long border fence at its shared border with Belarus designed to deter illegal migrants trying to enter the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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