Poland to equip over 100 km of border with Ukraine with electronic security system
Poland plans to equip more than 100 km of its border with Ukraine with an electronic security system to complement physical barriers.
Polskie Radio reported this, according to Censor.NET.
Details
The electronic system will complement physical barriers and include monitoring equipment and motion detectors.
"We are talking about 69 kilometres in the area of responsibility of the Nadbużański Border Guard Unit. The next project covers another 43 kilometres of the land border with Ukraine, also in the area of responsibility of the Bieszczadzki Border Guard Unit. These are our immediate plans," said Wioleta Gorzkowska, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Border Guard.
Reinforcing the borders with Russia and Belarus
Poland also plans to expand existing systems on its borders with Russia and Belarus.
"These include observation towers. The towers will be equipped with electro-optical systems, and drone detection systems will be installed on the border with Belarus," she said.
The European Union has allocated funding for the investments on both borders.
Gorzkowska also said that President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of legislation concerning the use of funds from the SAFE programme had prevented the Border Guard from making purchases worth 3 billion zlotys. The planned purchases included armoured vehicles and machine guns.
Background
The previous day, Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said Poland was tightening security at border crossings with Ukraine because of the Russian threat.
- It was previously reported that Russia attacked the locomotive of a passenger train in the Volyn region on the morning of September 13, about 2 km from the Polish border.
- Ukrzaliznytsia later provided details of the Russian attack on the locomotive in Yahodyn, near the Polish border, that morning.
