Poland cut illegal immigration from Belarus by 98% after building a 116-mile border wall – and now Donald Tusk’s Government is adding a minefield. Turns out robust clampdown on illegal entry is okay if it’s from Russia. The Mail has more.
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has claimed a £300 million border wall has proven “98% effective” at preventing attempts of illegal migration from Belarus.
“We had large numbers of people who were invited by Russia and Belarus from the Middle East and Africa who were then pushed across the Polish-Belarusian border into Poland,” Sikorski told BBCR4’s Today programme.
Warsaw alleges that Minsk and Moscow have long been waging a “hybrid war”, seeking to flood Poland with refugees to strain the country’s finances and law enforcement resources, and destabilise civil society.
“This year we have completed a big and beautiful fence with sensors overground, underground, with a patrol road alongside it, so hardly anybody gets through that barrier,” Sikorski declared.
He also mentioned a recent amendment to immigration legislation that stipulates migrants attempting to reach Poland via Russia and Belarus can continue to apply for asylum in Poland, but only at consulate buildings in Moscow and Minsk.
The anti-migration fencing was completed in June 2022 and now spans a 116-mile-long stretch of the Polish-Belarusian border, but was subsequently upgraded with surveillance equipment, including CCTV cameras, heat and motion sensors.
The five-metre-high metal fence scythes through the Polish countryside, covered with miles upon miles of barbs and topped with razor wire.
Border checkpoints are also reinforced with huge concrete slabs, each weighing more than 1.5 tonnes, along with secondary walls and barbed-wire fencing.
Sikorski spoke to BBCR4 amid discussions about soaring illegal migration figures in Britain, with 20,000 migrants said to have arrived in Britain via small boats crossing the Channel so far in 2025.
Now, Polish authorities are proceeding full steam ahead with a new project – East Shield – which aims to transform its entire frontier with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad into one gigantic, closely surveilled fortification.
The 400-mile-long construction, announced last year and targeted for completion in 2028, arguably constitutes the single most significant national security investment in Poland’s post-war history at more than £2 billion.
It was green-lit by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, and Moscow and Minsk’s so-called hybrid war tactics.
In addition to the barbed wire-topped fencing, concrete reinforcements and secondary defences, the East Shield will see strips of land turned into minefields and littered with anti-tank fortifications including steel and concrete hedgehogs, ‘dragon’s teeth’ obstacles and deep trenches, along with drone defence equipment.
This multi-layered line of defence is expected to extend more than 200 metres back from the initial border wall.
Behind these defences, Warsaw is constructing bunkers, firing posts and other military infrastructure in the forests, woods and small villages spanning the length of the country to provide yet more resistance should the deterrent fail.
According to details provided by the government, the programme will also employ state-of-the-art surveillance equipment, including imagery intelligence (IMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and acoustic monitoring to improve situational awareness of the would-be battlefield.
Worth reading in full.
Poland of course is an EU member and an ECHR signatory, so it seems those are no barrier to these kinds of measures – Yvette Cooper take note. It’s amazing how accommodating Europe can be when it feels like it.
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As is the current fashion one has to say “Chapeau” to Mr Sanders. Stirling work.
Itv is not easy to prove malevolence by the Met in siting this or other b adly placed stations.
I hope the Reform Party will include sufficiently clear policies in the Net Zero section of its manifesto to mandate proper scientific values (as DJT has done in the USA) and require the Met to explain to its sponsoring Minister why it has operated as it has, then to establish a full aray of grade 1 stations within six months.
They should also be told to publish the full reasoning and methodology for the revisions made to past climate data.
Not easy? Malevolence is manifest throughout the entire Climate change hoax – a deliberate determined, evil desire to immiserate and impoverish Humanity.
I think EppingBlogger said it isn’t easy to prove…
The scam is not the typical kind. —-With the climate scam natural variability is rebranded as a crisis. The crisis is meant to instil fear, and then once fear has been established under the cloak of concern then all manner of controls of the worlds wealth, resources and all human activities could be justified to SAVE US from the CRISIS.
Met Office are fully integrated into the WEF Agenda 2030.
If you look for something hard enough you will find it – whether it exists or not.
I usually make this point with debates about discrimination but perhaps it works just as well with ‘the climate crisis’? I know of several mainstream scientific news websites that reflexively ascribe the cause of almost any geophysical event to ‘climate change’.
Google “Prevalence-induced concept change”
The picture above does not look too dramatic until you notice all the plastic tubes protecting the newly planted trees right at the side of the also new equipment. Over the years these will grow and have a massive effect on temperature readings. This has been carried out by intelligent scientists who know exactly what they are doing. It’s all a blatant con and they are being being found out.
Suspicions mount? I think they have peaked. We now need a team of Sherpa and 02 tanks when it comes to tackling the emission from the UK Metaphorical temperatures Office.
I presume Met Office now stands for “Manufacturing Evidence of Temperatures.”
Yes—–But Chris nothing will happen and the public will not be alerted to the climate change fraud unless the mainstream media start reporting on it. But that is unlikely to ever happen as the MSM are all in on the scam.