{"id":493798,"date":"2025-10-28T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=493798"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:56:30","slug":"tusk-poland-ready-to-reopen-two-border-crossings-with-belarus-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tusk-poland-ready-to-reopen-two-border-crossings-with-belarus-in-november","title":{"rendered":"Tusk: Poland Ready to Reopen Two Border Crossings With Belarus in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland is ready to reopen two border crossings on its frontier with Belarus in November, Prime Minister <b>Donald Tusk<\/b> announced at the EU Cohesion and Cross-Border Development Forum in Bia\u0142ystok on Wednesday. The crossings in question are Bobrowniki (Berastavitsa on the Belarusian side) and Ku\u017anica (Bruzgi).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe will be ready this year \u2014 in fact, I can say even in November \u2014 to reopen two border crossings in Bobrowniki and Ku\u017anica. As for Bobrowniki, there are no logistical problems,\u201d<\/em> Tusk said. He noted that due to ongoing repairs in Ku\u017anica, only vehicles weighing up to 3.5 tonnes will be allowed to pass until the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The reopening of the Po\u0142owce\u2013Peschatka crossing is not under consideration while a military camp remains stationed there.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tusk, Poland would have been ready to reopen the Bobrowniki and Ku\u017anica crossings as early as this week, but a problem arose on the Lithuanian\u2013Belarusian border. He recalled that Lithuania had closed its border with Belarus and said that Poland must coordinate its policies with its neighbors.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf we are talking about reopening these border crossings, it is primarily because the border is now more secure than ever before. Thanks to our joint efforts, the Polish\u2013Belarusian border is probably the most protected border in all of Europe. Therefore, we can take a certain risk associated with its reopening, as we believe the benefits outweigh the risks,\u201d<\/em> Tusk stated.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said the crossings would reopen on a trial basis.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf the need arises to close the border again, I won\u2019t hesitate for a second,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, two road crossings operate on the Belarus\u2013Poland border: Brest\u2013Terespol for passenger cars and buses, and Kozlovichi\u2013Kukuryki for freight transport. There are also railway crossings for cargo trains at Ku\u017anica Bia\u0142ostocka\u2013Hrodna, Siemian\u00f3wka\u2013Svislach, and Terespol\u2013Brest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland is ready to reopen two border crossings on its frontier with Belarus in November, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced at the EU Cohesion and Cross-Border Development Forum in Bia\u0142ystok on Wednesday. The crossings in question are Bobrowniki (Berastavitsa on the Belarusian side) and Ku\u017anica (Bruzgi). \u201cWe will be ready this year \u2014 in fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6900d9a6b844d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tusk: Poland Ready to Reopen Two Border Crossings With Belarus in November"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}