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According to the Ministry of National Defense, a barbed wire barrier, called a concert hall, was built to curb the drastic increase in the flow of migrants from Belarus in recent months.
PHOTO GALLERY. The army has started building a barbed wire barrier on the border with Belarus.
National Defense Minister Arvydas Anušauskas hopes that the installed barrier will significantly slow down migrants crossing the border, allowing border guards and soldiers to notice them faster.
“It will be a barbed wire, it is difficult and dangerous to overcome, therefore such a barrier has a significant deterrent effect,” said A. Anušauskas.
According to him, the soldiers are actively cooperating with the Interior Ministry and the State Border Guard Service, and the army will provide these services with “all requested support”, from logistics to military support.
Earlier on Friday, Giedrius Mišutis, a representative of the State Border Guard Service, informed BNS that a border barrier would be built near Druskininkai, where the majority, about a third, of all migrants arriving from Belarus had been detained since the beginning of the year. A total of 1,546 illegal immigrants were detained on the border with Belarus this year, mostly from Iraq.
In recent months, Lithuania has faced a nearly twenty-fold increase in the flow of illegal immigrants across the Belarusian border. Lithuanian officials say it is a hybrid attack organized by the Belarusian regime against Lithuania.
Wire barriers on the border with Belarus received 4.8 million from the Government Reserve. euros
The government allocated 4.8 million euros from the reserve on Friday to install barbed wire barriers on the border with Belarus. euros.
The decree stipulates that this money will be used “to install an additional physical barrier on the 550 km long border with Belarus to protect the Concertina security fence in order to prevent illegal migratory flows.”
A barbed wire barrier, called a concert, to stop the flow of illegal immigrants from Belarus, the army began building on Friday.
National Defense Minister Arvydas Anušauskas hopes that the installed barrier will significantly slow down migrants crossing the border, allowing border guards and soldiers to notice them faster.
“It will be a barbed wire, it is difficult and dangerous to overcome, therefore such a barrier has a significant deterrent effect,” said A. Anušauskas.
Earlier on Friday, Giedrius Mišutis, a representative of the State Border Guard Service, informed BNS that a border barrier would be built near Druskininkai, where the majority, about a third, of all migrants arriving from Belarus had been detained since the beginning of the year. In total, more than 1,500 people have been detained on the border with Belarus this year. illegal immigrants, mainly from Iraq.
In recent months, Lithuania has faced a nearly twenty-fold increase in the flow of illegal immigrants across the Belarusian border. Lithuanian officials say it is a hybrid attack organized by the Belarusian regime against Lithuania.
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