Poland will build a fence along its border with Belarus and deploy more soldiers to the area to stop migrants from entering the country.
More than 900 soldiers will be sent, and an 8-foot-tall barrier will be constructed on the border, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced Monday.
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“We are dealing with an attack on Poland,” he said during a news conference at the border. “It is an attempt to trigger a migration crisis.”
The Polish government will also offer humanitarian assistance to migrants stuck at the border for over two weeks.
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Poland offers humanitarian aid to migrants in Belarus.
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Poland is one of four European Union nations accusing Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of sending the migrants, who are mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, across the EU’s external border in a sort of “hybrid war.”
“Using immigrants to destabilize neighboring countries constitutes a clear breach of the international law and qualifies as a hybrid attack against … Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and thus against the entire European Union,” the nations said in a joint statement Monday, urging the United Nations to look into the situation.
Estonia is among the countries flooded with immigrants.
The nation’s deputy foreign minister, Pawel Jablonski, said the border situation tests how Poland will react to more severe acts of hybrid warfare.
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“The statements and behavior of a significant number of Polish politicians, journalists and NGO activists show that a scenario in which a foreign country carrying out such an attack against Poland will receive support from allies in our country is very real,” Jablonski tweeted.
