Russia is using various methods to destabilise the European Union and to stir up its ultimate collapse, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, told global broadcaster BBC World.
Poland's Border Guard has said there are currently about 10,000 migrants in Belarus planning to enter Poland illegally.
Poland's prime minister has said in an interview with BBC that a migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, a build-up of Russian forces near Ukraine and soaring gas prices are all part of Kremlin plans to destabilise central Europe.
Another group of Iraqis who had camped for weeks at the Belarus border with Poland, in the hope of entering the European Union, have been flown out of Belarus and back to Baghdad, a senior Polish security official said on Saturday.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has stated before a meeting with his British counterpart in London that the migration situation in Poland is very intense and that it is a problem for the whole of Europe.
A Polish soldier has been injured during an attack by a group of nearly 200 migrants on the border with Belarus, a spokeswoman for the Border Guard said on Friday.
The current migrant crisis at Poland's border with Belarus and concerns about the concentration of Russian troops near Ukraine dominated the Polish prime minister's talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday.
The European Commission vice president has told PAP that the response to the migration crisis triggered by Belarus was a collective EU effort based on solidarity.
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has termed Poland's appeal to Nato for involvement in solving the migration crisis on its border with Belarus as "provocative and extremely dangerous".
Charles Michel, president of the European Council, will visit Poland on Wednesday to discuss the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border with the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki.
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