{"id":129157,"date":"2025-03-08T23:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/129157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"warsaw-extends-border-area-entry-ban-by-90-days","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/129157\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw extends border area entry ban by 90 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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March 8, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak extended a border area entry ban at the shared border with Belarus by another 90 days starting March 10, the Polish Border Guards\u2019 press office reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially introduced last June, 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

Polish authorities praised the effectiveness of the ban, noting a 46-percent decrease in irregular border crossings in 267 days since the ban has been in force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the ban reportedly helped file criminal charges of facilitating illegal migration against at least 597 people, including 280 Ukrainians, 87 Poles, 50 Belarusians and 30 Georgians.<\/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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