{"id":147617,"date":"2025-07-21T20:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/147617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"poland-running-final-tests-on-electronic-barrier-at-border-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/147617\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland running final tests on electronic barrier at border with Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zapadnyj_bug_1128x752-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zapadnyj_bug_1128x752-2.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zapadnyj_bug_1128x752-2-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zapadnyj_bug_1128x752-2-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zapadnyj_bug_1128x752-2-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zapadnyj_bug_1128x752-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n      <div class=\"block-image__descr\">\n\n        The Western Bug (Belarus is above the white line)\n    <\/div>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Patrz na Wsch\u00f3d video\/ Pozirk&#039;s still)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>July 21, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak has announced the completion of an electronic barrier at all sections of the Belarus border that lack steel fencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Siemoniak and his German counterpart, Alexander Dobrindt, visited the Polish-Belarusian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portal Samorzadowy quoted Siemoniak as saying that the 5.5-meter high steel fence was installed along 186-kilometer of the border; additionally, the electronic barrier protects 206 km, including river areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Polish minister, Lublin Voivodeship is running final tests on the electronic barrier on the Bug River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last September, the Polish Border Guard reported installing a barrier at the Bug border section. \u201cThe length of the electronic barrier along this section, supervised by the Bug River border unit, totals approximately 172 km,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polish officers expect the system to help handle cross-border crime, irregular migration and goods smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/latvijas-robeza_0-300x172.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/latvijas-robeza_0-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/latvijas-robeza_0-1024x587.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/latvijas-robeza_0-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/latvijas-robeza_0.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Irregular migration at Belarus-Latvia border soars<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">July 21, Pozirk. Latvian officers stopped 7,278 attempts by third-country nationals to cross the border from Belarus between January 1 and July 20.\u00a0This represents a 36.9 percent increase year on year. Last year, irregular migration at the Belarusian-Latvian border peaked &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/147572\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, Pozirk. Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak has announced the completion of an electronic barrier at all sections of the Belarus border that lack steel fencing. Today, Siemoniak and his German counterpart, Alexander Dobrindt, visited the Polish-Belarusian border. Portal Samorzadowy quoted Siemoniak as saying that the 5.5-meter high steel fence was installed along 186-kilometer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":147605,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-147617","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Poland running final tests on electronic barrier at border with Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 21, Pozirk. 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