Poland will start building defensive fortifications on its eastern border this year, Deputy National Defence Minister Cesari Tomczyk said.
“Eastern Shield is one of the tasks that Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz, has set before us, so that the eastern border of the Polish Republic, so that the northern border of the Polish Republic are secure borders,” Cesari Tomczyk told reporters.
Poland’s deputy national defence minister stressed that the cost of this programme will be approximately 10 billion zlotys, equivalent to $2.6 billion.
In mid-2021, several thousand migrants piled up on the border between Poland and Belarus in an effort to reach European Union countries. Since then, every month hundreds of illegal immigrants are trying to enter the territory of Poland.
Earlier, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that the EU countries should stop paying social benefits to refugees from Ukraine, including men of conscription age.