Tag: Poland

Polish defense minister: Here’s how NATO must adapt (Mariusz Błaszczak, Defense News)

The first two decades of the new millennium have proven the spectrum of security challenges in front of us is unlikely to narrow. Quite...

Kremlin Downplays Lukashenka’s Gas Threat As Poland Summons Belarus Attaché (RFE RL)

The Kremlin has downplayed a renewed threat by Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka to cut Russian gas supplies to the European Union in response to...

Poland Maintains Restrictions On Access To Border With Belarus (RFE RL)

Poland has extended a controversial state of emergency that allows the government to continue restricting access to its border with Belarus to everyone except...

‘Go through, go,’ Lukashenko tells asylum seekers near EU border (Al Jazeera)

With no end in sight for the weeks-long crisis at the European Union’s eastern frontier, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has told hopeful asylum seekers...

What next for the refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland? (Arwa Ibrahim, Al Jazeera)

Ali has been held at a detention centre in Lithuania along with six members of his family since they fled southern Iraq in July. The...

The devastating ways women suffer at the Poland-Belarus border (Sara Cincurova, Al Jazeera)

When 28-year-old Shirin*, an Iraqi Kurd, crossed the border from Belarus into Poland with her seven-year-old son Ali*, she did not expect to end...

Swift trans-Atlantic action kept Turkey from fueling Belarus’ hybrid attacks (Aykan Erdemir, Defense News)

Following her meeting with President Biden at the White House last Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated on Twitter that the rising tensions...

Poland turns water cannon on migrants, crisis stokes East-West tension (Robin Emmott and Joanna Plucinska, Yara Abi Nader, Reuters)

Polish security forces fired water cannon at rock-throwing migrants on the border with Belarus on Tuesday, and NATO reiterated its support for Warsaw in...

Iraq to launch repatriation flights from Belarus for citizens wishing to ‘voluntarily’ return (Middle East Eye)

Iraq is set to begin repatriating its citizens who wish to return on a voluntary basis from the Belarus border with Poland, an Iraqi official...

The EU’s Latest Migrant Crisis: Will Belarus Get Its Way? (Maxim Samorukov, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Images of crowds of refugees and migrants at EU borders may be a common occurrence, but there’s something very different about the current scenes...

Poland-Belarus: Refugees talk of ‘unimaginable suffering’ on border (Céline Martelet, Hussam Hammoud, Middle East Eye)

Eighteen days of "inhumanity" is how Hamza described what he experienced at the gates of the European Union. The 25-year-old Syrian was still in...

Belarus Is Laying Tinder for a War. How Will NATO Respond? (Elisabeth Braw, Defense One)

Belarus Is Laying Tinder for a War. How Will NATO Respond? If you wanted to cause a war, here’s a formula with high odds of...

Poland to acquire 300 used Cougar MRAPs from the US (Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News)

Poland’s Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has announced the country will acquire 300 second-hand Cougar mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles from the United States as part...

Belarus as Latest Front in Acute East-West Standoff (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

A new point of acute East-West tension has emerged on the Polish-Belarusian border. Minsk and the West have been at loggerheads since August 2020,...

Migrants face hypothermia and broken bones in freezing forests as Poland-Belarus crisis deepens (Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Antonia Mortensen and Magda Chodownik, CNN)

Migrants trapped on the border between Poland and Belarus have made hundreds of attempts to breach the frontier, but were repelled by 15,000 Polish...

Europe fuels tensions on Belarusian border instead of helping people — diplomat (TASS)

The European countries and associations have been escalating the migrant situation on the Belarusian border with the EU in place of specific humanitarian assistance...