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Poland to close Belarus border due to Russia-led military exercises, PM says
Poland closed its border crossings with Belarus due to security concerns over Zapad-2025 drills involving nuclear scenarios and up to 13,000 troops, amid escalating regional tensions.
- Poland will close its eastern border with Belarus on Thursday at midnight for national security reasons, as stated by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
- Joint Russian-Belarusian military drills, known as Zapad-2025, are set to occur from Friday to next Monday, involving around 13,000 personnel.
- Belarusian officials claim the drills will be scaled down and held deeper inside Belarus as a gesture of de-escalation.
- Tusk described Zapad-2025 as 'very aggressive' and warned the exercises will take place 'very close' to the Polish border.
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The head of Polish diplomacy, Radoslav Sikorski, said today that history has taught Poland to take Russia's threats deadly seriously and that the closure of the Polish border since September 12 due to Belarusian-Russian military exercises "West" is a signal to Belarus that it has gone too far.
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