Armed Forces
British Engineers to Support the Polish Border Fortification
British engineering forces may become involved in the construction of Eastern Shield. The extent of possible Polish-British cooperation was discussed during the recent visit of the 8th Engineering Brigade of the UK Armed Forces to Orzysz.
A working visit by the commander of the 8th Engineering Brigade of the UK Armed Forces, Brigadier Simon Carvel, took place at the end of January.
As we read on the Polish Armed Forces website, the purpose of the meeting was to discuss Polish-British cooperation in the area of military engineering. The possibility of involving British engineering troops in the implementation of the Eastern Shield programme was also considered.
The visit to the Zapor (pol. „Barrier”) a Training and Test Facility at the Orzysz Land Forces Training Centre included a meeting between Brigadier Carvel and the head of the Military Engineering Department of the Armed Forces General Command, Major General Marek Wawrzyniak. It was at the Orzysz training ground that the first tests of elements of Eastern Shield took place.
Eastern Shield
Tarcza Wschód is a programme prepared at the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff of the Polish Army, which envisages the construction of various types of fortifications, terrain obstacles and military infrastructure on Poland’s borders with Russia and Belarus - a total distance of approximately 800 km. The project was presented in May last year, and in November the first works began.