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Lithuania starts building border barriers due to increasing numbers of refugees from Belarus
In light of the increasing number of refugees through Belarus, Lithuania has started building a border fort. Lithuania has already provided the first sections of a planned wall with a three to four meter high steel fence, said a senior border official on Thursday. The country wants to spend 152 million euros on the planned 500-kilometer wall. It should be finished by September 2022. In addition, a barbed wire fence and video surveillance are planned. State Border Guard Commander Virgilius Raugale said: “It is probably impossible to erect a completely insurmountable obstacle, so I think that obstacle can also be overcome. But that would take a long time and we would be able to react . ” Poland and Latvia also want to secure their borders with Belarus with fences in view of the increasing number of refugees. On the Polish-Belarusian border alone, hundreds try to illegally enter Poland and the EU every day. Your destination is mostly Germany. The European Commission accuses the leadership in Minsk of organizing the border crossings. She speaks of a form of hybrid warfare to put pressure on the EU for sanctions imposed on Belarus. Belarus has denied this.
The country wants to spend 152 million euros on the planned 500-kilometer wall.