"Poland Has Put Forward Specific Conditions To Lukashenko"

• 19.09.2025, 10:36

There are a few requirements.

This was told to the website Charter97.org by the candidate of philosophical sciences, head of the Ukrainian Center for Belarusian Communications Maksim Pleshko, commenting on Poland's decision to close the border with Belarus:

- Poland clearly formulates: the issue of the border is not about trade, but about security. Warsaw recalls Minsk's provocations and Moscow's destructive actions, in particular airspace violations by Russian drones.

"Security" in the Polish understanding means several things:

- cessation of hybrid attacks through artificially organized migration pressure;

- absence of military provocations and threats to Polish territory;

- reduction of the rhetoric of hostility that fuels the conflict.

Sikorski said bluntly: as long as there are "wandering through the border gangs of pseudo-refugees driven by Lukashenko," the opening of crossings is out of the question. In other words, the key condition is a guarantee that the border will no longer be used as an instrument of blackmail.

Poland admits that keeping the border closed is costly for Warsaw itself, but emphasizes that security is more important than any economic losses.