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Poland to build drone defense system on Belarus border

23 December 2025 17:02 (UTC +04:00)

Poland is beginning construction of an anti-drone system on its border with Belarus, APA reports, citing Belsat.

This was announced on December 23 to journalists by Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Martin Kerwiński during a visit, together with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, to the Border Guard site in Bobrowniki.

Pointing to one of the observation towers built in recent months, the minister noted that it is one of five on which the first cluster of the anti-drone system will be installed to protect the Polish border. The system itself will be launched in January.

Martin Kerwiński said that the current Polish government has invested more than 2 billion zlotys in strengthening the border. And next year, the Border Guard will receive another 2.5 billion.

The minister stressed that in 2025, Polish border guards confronted almost 30,000 attempts to illegally cross the border:

"They did not succeed. This really shows the problem we are facing, what this hybrid war is that Russia and Belarus are waging against Poland, against the European Union."

As a reminder, Polish border guards discovered another tunnel on the state border with Belarus. The tunnel, several dozen meters long, was found near the settlement of Narewka in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It was dug under the border fence and a service road. Its height was about 1.5 meters. The entrance, camouflaged in the forest, was located approximately 50 meters from the border on the Belarusian side, and the exit was about 10 meters from the fence on the Polish side.