The regional border guard is located on the outskirts of downtown Białystok, Poland's easternmost major city, 50 kilometers from Belarus. Here, one of the spokespersons for this authority in an olive-green uniform appears in front of the microphones and reports what is new on Poland's eastern border .

On Wednesday Major Katarzyna Zdanowicz reported three "breaches of the border".

The day before and during the night, three groups of migrants managed to overcome border fences or rolls of barbed wire in three places.

In total, around 350 people came to Poland and the EU.

However, everyone was picked up and sent back to Belarus.

Gerhard Gnauck

Political correspondent for Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania based in Warsaw.

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Since hundreds of migrants on the Belarusian side marched towards the border in the area of ​​the Kuźnica-Brusgi border crossing on Monday, a tent camp has been built along the makeshift barbed wire fence erected by Poland in the past few months, in which people try to to protect yourself from freezing with fire. There are now said to be several thousand migrants in the forested area. On the Polish side, they face large units of the security forces, who repeatedly respond with tear gas to attempts by migrants to tear down the fence. Behind the migrants are uniformed men on the Belarusian side.

At the beginning of September, Poland declared a state of emergency for a three-kilometer-wide border strip and denied journalists access to this area.

On the Belarusian side, the regime's propaganda channels are filming border guards looking after the refugees.

Videos of the Polish border guards and of migrants show a less friendly picture of the Belarusian uniformed people: you can see them driving migrants onto the fence.

Russian long-range bombers patrol

The Kuźnica crossing is now closed. The trucks waiting there had to use the Bobrowniki crossing further south. According to the Polish authorities, the waiting time there is now 39 hours. It is almost exclusively trucks with Russian and Belarusian license plates that mostly bring consumer goods from the EU to Russia. Russia set its first military accent in the Belarusian crisis: on Wednesday two Russian Tu-22 long-range bombers patrolled the airspace over Belarus. The Minsk state television reported that it was a case of the "air defense of the allies in the face of the tense situation". The flights would be regular from now on.

What happens on the Belarusian-Polish border is seen by the EU as a hybrid attack by the Belarusian regime on the community. Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday after a meeting with US President Joe Biden that the events there were "not a migration crisis, but an attempt to destabilize democratic EU countries": "We have to protect our democracies from this cynical geopolitical power game." She agreed with Biden that they wanted to work together in favor of the migrants' countries of origin and that further sanctions would be imposed on Belarus.

Council President Charles Michel came to Warsaw on Wednesday to talk to Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki about countermeasures.

Michel called on the Western community of states to unite.

The Belarusian approach must be stopped.

Michel set his own accent with the statement that from a legal point of view it was possible to finance “physical infrastructure” for border protection, such as the border barriers planned by Poland and Lithuania against Belarus, from EU funds.

That was the result of an opinion from the legal service of the European Council.

The decision on this must be made by the EU Commission.

This has so far refused to pay for border fences from EU funds.

He hoped for a decision soon, said Michel.