Overview
- Poland has moved police counterterrorism teams into the Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie regions to strengthen patrols and protect infrastructure near the Kaliningrad border.
- A special command centre at the National Police Headquarters is directing operations that include the police, military forces, border guards and intelligence services.
- Polish military intelligence and allied services warned that acts of sabotage or incursions by armed groups could occur, but authorities say no sabotage has been confirmed so far.
- Officials have denied the deployment is linked to Poland’s domestic Constitutional Tribunal dispute and say the aim is to protect residents and critical sites.
- The step raises NATO-area concerns after a recent unidentified object entered Latvian airspace and highlights the strategic sensitivity of the nearby Suwałki Gap, the corridor between Kaliningrad and Belarus.