Poland expels Belarusian defense attaché

The Belarusian defense attaché will leave Poland in response to Minsk's decision to expel a Polish liaison officer and two consulate employees from Belarus. The Polish spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the liaison officer of the Polish Border Guard and two employees of the Polish consulate from Grodno had already left Belarus. The decision to expel the Belarusian defense attaché from Poland was made after the Polish minority activist and journalist Andrzej Poczobut was sentenced to 8 years in a penal colony by a court in Grodno.

On February 18, Belarus introduced restrictions that prevent Polish carriers from using border crossings between Belarus and Lithuania and Latvia. In response, Poland has limited the movement of Belarusian freight vehicles at the Kukuryki-Kozłowicze border crossing.

Source: PAP