Published:
27 oct 2024 23:09 GMT
At the same time, <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/coronavirus-in-poland-cabinet-council-on-actions-taken-in-the-fight-against-the-covid-19-epidemic/" title="Coronavirus in Poland. Cabinet Council on actions taken in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic”>Andrzej Duda acknowledged that “some politicians in the West” view this idea “with horror.”
Poland needs to erect a new ‘iron curtain’ on its eastern borders to protect itself against Russia, stated in an interview with The Sunday Times the Polish president, Andrzej Duda.
However, according to the president, “some politicians in the West view with horror” the idea of building a thousand-kilometer wall of metal and concrete reminiscent of the times of the Cold War.
“The last thing they want is to see how the ‘iron curtain’ is rebuilt. “I will say this: if the safety of my compatriots must be protected by lifting the ‘iron curtain’ again, then okay, there will be an ‘iron curtain’ as long as we are on the side free of it,” Duda declared.
According to the media, Poland will begin building “sometime in the coming weeks” a line of fortifications, as well as weapons depots and reconnaissance posts worth 2.3 billion euros (almost $2.5 billion) along the country’s eastern borders.
Presented at the end of May, the project Eastern Shield was qualified by Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz as “the largest operation to reinforce Poland’s border and NATO’s eastern flank since 1945“.
That same month, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed that the country began fortification work on its border with Belarus. Likewise, the Government announced that it would disburse more than 300 million dollars to reinforce the fence erected in 2022 next to Belarusian territory. At that time, Tusk said he was confident that the European Union would help finance the fortifications, as it is “not only the internal border of Poland, but also the EU border“.
