The Białowieża Forest World Heritage site, on the border between Poland and Belarus, is an immense range of primary forest including both conifers and broadleaved trees covering a total area of ...

“Pushbacks at the Poland-Belarus border are generalized and systemic,” said Egala Advocacy Lead Aleksandra Gulińska. “We continuously come across people in the forest who have been forcibly returned ...

At the fringe of the Polish forest of Bialowieza a wall has separated Belarus from Poland for two years. It was built to be a bulwark against the illegal influx of thousands of migrants ...

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Poland plans to plant anti-personnel mines on its borders with Russia and Belarus as part of the East Shield project, Polish Deputy Defence Minister Paweł Bejda has said. Source: European Pravda, ...

Poland's suspension of asylum rights for migrants at the Belarus border has drawn criticism from human rights groups, who ...

A 5.5 m high steel technical barrier built in 2022 stands on Poland's 186 km of the border with Belarus. It is the main element securing it against illegal migration, and it is supplemented by the ...

Lukashenko. By Monika Pronczuk and Steven Erlanger Almost a dozen migrants have died in recent weeks in the standoff between Belarus, a close ally of Russia, and Poland, a member of NATO and the ...