Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski made this announcement during a news conference held at the Belarus border crossing in Terespol.
Effective from midnight on Saturday, this ban signifies that vehicles registered in Russia will be denied access to Polish territory.
The decision mirrors similar actions taken recently by Finland, as well as the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The EU updated its trade sanctions on September 8, 2023, to include a specific prohibition on Russian cars, according to Kaminski.
"Russian trucks were already subject to this ban. Now we are closing this matter. No Russian car will enter Poland," Kaminski emphasized.
Poland shares a border of 232 kilometers (144 miles) with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea and an almost 400-kilometer frontier with Belarus, one of Moscow's key allies.
The tightening of trade sanctions against Russia by EU member states has been an ongoing response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. These measures build upon restrictions initially imposed following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. (ILKHA)