The Polish Defense Minister today reported that the country is strengthening the border area with Ukraine, over 500 kilometres long, after the Russian Sunday attack on Ukrainian territory very close to Poland.
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15/09/2026
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“ ANDwe are strengthening the protection of our border points with Ukraine,” said Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz on social networks, referring to the increase in the “infrastructure” used by the Border Guard.
Kosiniak-Kamysz, who indicated that the military of the 18th Regiment of Engineers are already working on it, pointed out that the decision of Donald Tusk’s government follows Russia’s actions in the “last days”, which “represent a threat to the security of all Europe”.
The statements of that Polish government officer appear after a convoy with more than 200 people on board, according to the Ukrainian authorities, was hit in an attack launched on Sunday against a Ukrainian point near the Polish border, which caused the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, to call an emergency meeting of the Security Office that same day.
The train was travelling on a line used shortly before by another in which the former British and Swedish prime ministers Boris Johnson and Carl Bildt, along with other European diplomats, traveled after attending a security conference held in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
On Monday, the Russian Government rejected the charges against you for this attack, which left no victims, ensuring that it was launched “exclusively against military facilities and military transport and the logistical infrastructure used by the Kiev regime, also in western Ukraine,” in the words of the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajarova.