Tunnel connecting Belarus and Poland discovered by border guards

Published connected 18/10/2025 - 15:25 GMT+2 •Updated 15:50

Polish separator defender officers discovered a passageway connecting nan Belarusian broadside of nan separator pinch Poland connected Friday. Warsaw's Minister of Interior and Administration Marcin Kierwiński provided accusation astir nan revealed passageway successful a station connected societal media level X.

"Officers of nan [Podlaskie Border Guard - ed.] discovered a passageway nether nan obstruction connected nan Polish-Belarusian border. The passageway started and ended astir 20 meters from nan separator connected nan side. Thanks to precocious physics systems connected nan barrier, nan Polish-Belarusian separator is efficaciously protected!" wrote nan caput of nan Ministry of Interior and Administration.

This is nan 2nd passageway dug nether nan Polish-Belarusian separator that has been discovered this year. The first 1 was located successful nan area of nan Border Guard Station successful Narewka.

Both tunnels were detected utilizing "advanced physics systems" precocious installed successful nan area, according to section officials.

In July, a important conception of nan Polish-Belarusian separator was modernised, installing nan astir precocious and modern thermal cameras.

The Podlaskie Border Guard besides reported that much than 60 attempts to illegally transverse nan Polish-Belarusian separator were recorded connected Thursday.

26,700 forbidden separator crossing attempts since January

Since January 2025, Border Guard officers person recorded complete 26,700 attempts to illegally transverse this border.

The Polish-Belarusian separator has been astatine nan centre of a migration and humanitarian situation connected nan eastbound flank of nan European Union since 2021.

The authorities claims this is portion of a broader "hybrid warfare" strategy aimed astatine destabilising nan region.

Poland and its friends person accused nan Belarusian authorities of provoking nan situation by bringing migrants from nan Middle East and Africa to Belarus and transporting them to nan Polish border.

For years, Poland has faced disapproval from quality authorities organisations for its consequence to forbidden separator crossing attempts. These critics peculiarly highlighted nan alleged usage of nan "pushback" method to nonstop migrants backmost to Belarus without allowing them to use for asylum.