Overview

• Road and rail traffic resumed at midnight on Sept. 24 following a nearly two-week suspension, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced.
• Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski signed the regulation restoring border movements for vehicles and freight trains.
• Poland closed all crossings on Sept. 12 over security risks tied to the Zapad-2025 exercises after a Sept. 10 drone incursion in which several drones were shot down.
• The halt disrupted a route carrying around €25 billion in EU–China trade, and PKP Cargo warned prolonged closure could divert freight to southern corridors at Poland’s expense.
• Tusk said the government can reimpose closures if threats reappear, noting risks have eased with the drills’ end and that Poland maintains reinforced deployments along the Belarus and Kaliningrad borders.