Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, inaugurated a 187 kilometre stretch of a new fence on Poland's border with Belarus on Thursday.
The fence was built in just over five months and is designed to stem illegal migration from Belarus.
On Thursday, Morawiecki said that the fence was necessary to protect the Polish border and focus on stretches where the fight for the future of Europe and Poland is taking place. The prime minister said that the Belarusian regime tried to destabilise Europe by bringing in thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa and encouraging them to cross into Poland and Lithuania, a move that was made in retaliation for the sanctions the EU had imposed on Minsk for its brutal crackdown on the democratic opposition.
The fence is an expression of our effectiveness, responsibility, foresight and predictability, and we will pursue it against all odds, according to Morawiecki. Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said that the migration crisis stoked by Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko in the second half of 2021 was preparation for Russia's PAP war against Ukraine. He said that it was a Russian scenario and we had no doubt about it.