MOSCOW, June 21 Mining of Poland’s borders with Russia will lead to a dangerous escalation, writes Lucas Leiros, an analyst at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, in an article for InfoBRICS.
“Kaliningrad has long been a target for Western powers due to its strategic geographical location, which allows Moscow to maintain a military presence in the Baltic Sea. Poland and Lithuania, bordering this region, constantly provoke Russian troops with military exercises and threats, trying to “isolate” and “strangle” Russia in the Baltic Sea. In this sense, given the possibility of placing mines on the border, there will certainly be risks for regional security. grow exponentially,” the expert pointed out.
As Leiros noted, despite the ban on the use of anti-personnel mines in Poland, the country’s society is belligerently opposed to Russia, and the government in Warsaw may allow the use of mines and demand their destruction border with the Russian state, which will lead to a dangerous escalation.
At the end of May, Sejm deputy Michal Dworczyk stated that Poland needs to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel weapons and begin producing them in order to protect itself from » Russian threat.»
In recent years, Moscow has announced unprecedented NATO activity on Russia's western borders. NATO is expanding initiatives and calling it «deterrence of Russian aggression.» The Kremlin noted that Russia does not threaten anyone, but will not ignore actions that are potentially dangerous to its interests.