Poland has established a border fence equipped with modern surveillance technology to prevent people from entering from Belarus. Rights activists accuse border guards of practicing a "pushback" strategy.

A Polish court has convicted a man of raping, robbing and killing a Belarusian woman and handed him a life sentence in prison with a requirement for therapy.

Fugitive oppositionists who have found themselves in the countries of the European Union are already preparing for the presidential elections in Belarus, which will be held on January 26. At the same time,

Standing at the base of a five-meter-high (16-foot) metal fence topped by barbed-wire running along the border with Belarus, armed Polish soldiers are on the lookout for migrants.

The Polish authorities refused to even negotiate the extradition of convicted in Belarus Andrei Pochobut, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told the media as he visited the Minsk City Technopark on .

MINSK. Jan 16 (Interfax) - Belarus is ready for the possible closure by Poland of all crossings on the two countries' border, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told journalists when commenting on the situation around border crossings and illegal migrants on the border with Poland.

OSCE observers not invited to monitor upcoming presidential election in Belarus. Belarus to host over 13,000 Russian troops for Zapad-2025 joint military drills with Russia. Belarus sentences EU diplomatic staffer to four years in prison.

Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that the Polish authorities can't sort things out with the internal political situation and the upcoming election campaign, so they are trying to shift the attention of their voters to Belarus.

Poland will not recognize Belarus’ upcoming presidential election, scheduled for January 26, upper-house Speaker Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska said on Thursday.

Warsaw identifies Moscow-backed disinformation group trying to disrupt presidential election, Krzysztof Gawkowski says

using temporarily closed border crossings. Starting 10 December, Poland extended the operation of a buffer zone along its border with Belarus for an additional 90 days.

A record queue has formed at the Brest checkpoint (Terespol on the Polish side). According to data from the morning of January 6, more than 2,100 passenger cars registered in the electronic queue are waiting to leave for Poland, Deutsche Welle reports.