Prime Minister Donald Tusk on 13 September warned that Russia would intensify activities in the coming weeks and months, which could besides cover the territory of Poland. After Russian attacks at the border more than 700 people from Dorohusk, Hrebenny and Border defender facilities were evacuated. Traffic's back to normal, but the service's going into enhanced mode.
Russian force reaches the Polish border
Donald Tusk appeared before a gathering of the Government safety Center. The Prime Minister said that Polish and allied services had been providing him with information about possible escalation from the Russian Federation for respective days. He considered the effort to paralyze or destruct Ukrainian border crossing points to be 1 of the directions of threat.
The informing wasn't in the vacuum. Russian strikes at the Polish border showed that the war could disrupt the work of Polish services and travel movements even erstwhile the mark is on the another side of the border. Tusk estimated that the escalation had become a fact and that it could not be excluded to include the territory of Poland.
Over 700 people outside the danger zone
Chief of Border defender Gen. Dyw. Robert Bagan presented the evacuation process. After hitting a gas station on the side of Ukrainian vibrations were felt at the border defender station in Dorohusk. About 78 officers and employees of the crossing were removed from the Polish side, as well as over 280 travellers. This group included passengers of 5 coaches.
W The Hrebenn alarm was announced after information about another object heading towards the transition. The evacuation included over 300 people, including 66 Border defender officers and customs and taxation administration staff. According to data presented during the briefing, more than 700 people were evacuated from 2 crossings and service facilities. After the threat has stopped, traffic has been restored and takes place normally.
Service transition to enhanced mode
The Prime Minister announced the country's work in enhanced mode. He estimated that the coming weeks and months would bring more Russian action, and the worst options were besides possible. Poland is to prepare an answer together with its allies, if the situation so requires.
A fewer days earlier, Tusk warned against Russian provocations at the borders of Europe. Repeated alarms confirm that border crossing points have become an component of force on countries supporting Ukraine. Their temporary exclusion affects people, trade and transport, and binds forces liable for protecting the Republic's border.
Poland needs readiness, not panic
Russia is liable for moving the war threat closer and closer to the Polish territory. There's no area for naivety or organization show in this case. The Prime Minister's informing is justified, but it must lead to a permanent transition shield, efficient evacuation procedures, backup communications and real air defense.
The border residents are entitled to quick, precise messages. Earlier RCB alerts for Lublin and Podkarpacia have shown that the state of advanced readiness is no longer an exception. The state should stay calm, but it cannot get utilized to alarms. The lives of Poles, continuity of border traffic and sovereignty over their own territory are at stake.
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