{"id":45885,"date":"2023-02-27T23:54:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/poland-can-shut-down-border-if-belarus-misbehaves-interior-official\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"poland-can-shut-down-border-if-belarus-misbehaves-interior-official","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45885\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland can shut down border if Belarus misbehaves \u2013 interior official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>February 27, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Poland can shut down the border with Belarus altogether, the Polish interior ministry\u2019s secretary of state Maciej W\u0105sik has told <span>Polskie Radio<\/span> in an interview.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI don\u2019t rule out a situation where we won\u2019t have traffic across the border with Belarus,\u201d W\u0105sik said. \u201cWe are ready for further action, but we\u2019ll see how the Belarusian side behaves and, of course, we expect signals.\u201d (Quotes rendered from Russian).<\/p>\n<p> He said Belarus could send a signal by releasing Polish minority activists Andrzej Poczobut and And\u017celika Borys. Poland is also unhappy about the destruction of Home Army cemeteries in Belarus, he added. <\/p>\n<p> On February 21, Poland blocked traffic at the Kukuryki-Kaz\u0142ovi\u010dy border checkpoint with Belarus. The decision by Interior Minister Mariusz Kami\u0144ski came in response to restrictions imposed by the Belarusian authorities on Polish carriers.<\/p>\n<p> After a Belarusian court sentenced Poczobut to eight years in prison in early February, Poland closed the key Bobrowniki road checkpoint, and Belarus restricted traffic for Polish lorries and tractor trucks to the Polish section of the border.<\/p>\n<p> Belarus also expelled a Polish Border Guard liaison officer and two staff members of the Polish consulate in Hrodna.<\/p>\n<p>On February 23, Poland said it was expelling the Belarusian military attach\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 27, BPN. Poland can shut down the border with Belarus altogether, the Polish interior ministry\u2019s secretary of state Maciej W\u0105sik has told Polskie Radio in an interview. \u201cI don\u2019t rule out a situation where we won\u2019t have traffic across the border with Belarus,\u201d W\u0105sik said. \u201cWe are ready for further action, but we\u2019ll see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45885","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Poland can shut down border if Belarus misbehaves \u2013 interior official | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 27, BPN. 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