Poland closes its border with Belarus starting tomorrow

Polish Interior Minister Kaminski said he had ordered more people linked to the Belarusian administration to be added to the sanctions list.

Stating that the Polish-Belarusian border crossing at Bobrowniki in north-eastern Poland will be closed from tomorrow due to “state security”, Kaminski said: “I have instructed more people responsible for the repression against Poles who live in Belarus to prepare proposals to expand the list of sanctions with their names”. he used the phrase.

Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian activist and journalist, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for promoting acts aimed at damaging the national security of Belarus, trying to restore Nazism and inciting ethnic hatred. (AA)