Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, signed into law on Friday a defence bill that will increase the size of the Polish army to 300,000.
Boris Johnson, Britain's prime minister, has said the UK stands in solidarity with Poland and is ready to increase military support for the country should it need it, the British PM's Office has said.
Poland's defence minister has thanked the US for bolstering its military presence in Poland and for saying both Nato and the US could provide additional support, if needed.
Poland's Nato ambassador told Polish Radio on Wednesday that there are no evident signs of de-escalation in the Ukraine crisis.
Poland's foreign minister on Thursday in Kyiv voiced "deep concern" about the situation around the country, on whose border Russia has been massing sizeable military forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Poland on Thursday for security talks with President Andrzej Duda amid rising tensions over a Russian military build-up on the Ukrainian border.
US President Joe Biden has said the USA will increase its military presence in Poland if Russia invades Ukraine.
Poland has signed an agreement with the United States on delivery of 300 used Cougar MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicles, the defence minister announced on Tuesday.
Poland is holding talks with the Czech Republic and Hungary concerning military aid to help the country deal with the protracted migrant crisis on the border with Belarus, the defence minister said on Friday.
The prime minister, speaking in the Estonian capital of Tallinn on Sunday, said that Europe is dealing with a new type of war; a war in which migrants are a weapon, in which disinformation is a weapon, a hybrid war.
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