During Thursday's meeting with journalists, the commander of the Podlasie Border Guard Unit, General Sławomir Klekotka, talked about the current situation at the border. He informed that the situation has stabilized to some extent. According to him, there are now significantly fewer attempts to cross the border and the pressure from the Belarusian side is much weaker. As he explained, border guard officers experience a significant decrease in aggression, which was frequent before.
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Since the beginning of November, the Podlaskie Branch of the Border Guard has been reporting in daily reports only 20-40 attempts to cross the border illegally a day, and there are days when this number drops to about ten. For comparison, in October the number of attempts to cross the border ranged from several dozen to over a hundred every day.
Investments at the border and new solutions
During the meeting with the media, ongoing investments at the border were recalled. The modernization of the technical road and the construction of observation towers are being completed. Further projects are planned, such as the construction of two grid lines along the technical road where the concertina is currently located.
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The head of the Podlasie border guards emphasized that the services must constantly look for new solutions, because new ways of illegally crossing the border are emerging.
Reasons for the stabilization of the situation
Gen. Sławomir Klekotka, when asked about the reasons for improving the situation, pointed to the effectiveness of the services' actions and the increasingly lower temperatures, which make it difficult to stay in camps on both sides of the border. He pointed out that drones make it easier to detect fires in the forest and people staying in these places. He also added that conditions on the Belarusian side are becoming more and more difficult.
The commander also emphasized that one of the factors influencing the current situation are the announcements of the opening of road border crossings with Belarus in Podlasie. The Belarusian side is waiting for confirmation of these decisions. Currently, there are only two railway freight crossings in the region – in Kuźnica and Siemianówka.
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At the end of October, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the possibility of opening road crossings in Kuźnica and Bobrowniki, but their exact date is not yet known.
