Belarus summoned Poland's chargé d'affaires to protest repeated violations of its border by Warsaw aircraft.
"Polish chargé d'affaires ad interim in Belarus, Marcin Wojciechowski, has been summoned," the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said on November 3. Belarus "strongly protests the violation of its national border on November 2 and demands that Poland conduct a thorough investigation and take effective measures to prevent such incidents from recurring."
According to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry , Poland's reckless attitude in conducting flights in the border area is "unacceptable".
The move comes after Valery Revenko, head of the international military cooperation department of the Belarusian Ministry of Defense , said a Polish light aircraft on patrol on November 2nd "repeatedly crossed the border, penetrating 200 meters into the country's territory."
"Since the beginning of September, Poland has made five such airspace violations," Revenko wrote on X, describing it as an action "on the brink."
The Polish Ministry of Defence has not commented on the information. Belarus has repeatedly accused Poland of violating its territory, but Warsaw denies the allegations.
A Polish Mi-24 helicopter conducts training exercises in Oleszno, northwestern Poland, in June 2014. Photo: Reuters
Relations between the two neighboring countries, which had been frozen for years, continued to deteriorate since Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko allowed Russia to use the territory for its campaign in Ukraine in 2022.
Poland has been one of Ukraine's most ardent supporters since the outbreak of hostilities and is one of Kyiv's main arms suppliers.
Belarus also stationed fighters from the private military company Wagner after the failed uprising in Russia in late June. Wagner participated in several training and exercises with the Belarusian army on the border, leading Poland and its neighbors to consider this a "security threat".
Location of Poland and Belarus. Graphic: BBC
By Như Tâm (According to AFP, TASS )
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