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Poland plans to adapt all its airports, including civilian ones, for military use, National Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosyniak-Kamysz said, Polskie radio reports.
“Every airport must be somehow adapted and adjusted to the ability to cooperate and work with the military,” he emphasized.
Kosyniak-Kamysz noted that some Polish airports are already civil-military airports, for example, there is an airport in Krakow, in Balice, where an air base is located and a civilian airport operates. Part of the Chopin Airport in Warsaw is also used for military purposes.
The publication also reminds that earlier, Poland's Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Maciej Lasek reported that negotiations are ongoing with the Ministry of National Defense regarding the "dual use of Polish airports, both for civilian and military purposes." He emphasized that "15 Polish civilian airports are twice as many as our military airports."
According to him, the military unit can accommodate transport hubs, evacuation points, aid points, and a cargo hub. When asked when the infrastructure will be ready, Lasek emphasized that “it is already happening.”
In particular, according to him, expansion is underway at Rzeszow Airport, “preparatory processes are ongoing” at Krakow Airport, “a cargo hub is being built at Katowice and Wroclaw airports, as well as a railway branch and fuel stations,” and at Szczecin Airport they are planning “a dual-purpose development, both to increase passenger traffic and to respond in case of danger or natural disasters.”
Europe and the war in Ukraine
It was previously reported that the US government plans to close the NATO base in Alexandroupolis, Greece, through which military aid supplies to Ukraine were delivered.
Earlier, the International Institute for Strategic Studies stated that Europe would have to spend an additional $350 billion to replace US aid to Ukraine. The main problem is the limited production capacity of European countries.
