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This was announced after President Gitan Nausėda’s remote video meeting with Frontex head Fabrice Legger, Lithuania’s efforts to deal with increasing flows of illegal migration from Belarus.
To strengthen monitoring of the Lithuanian border with Belarus, a helicopter will be dispatched from Poland, as well as the dispatch of an additional helicopter from Germany will be coordinated, according to the report.
Another reinforcement will be sent to Lithuania this weekend and next week: interpreters, staff to work with migrants, additional armed patrols.
G. Nausėda told the Frontex director that Lithuania would also need patrol cars and mobile thermal imaging cameras.
According to the Presidency, F. Leggeri, taking into account the request received from Lithuania, reported that it was activating the mechanism to provide emergency border assistance, which would generate additional forces in a very short period of time.
So far, Frontex has promised to send 30 agents to Lithuania to strengthen border security in mid-July.
A total of 1,577 illegal immigrants were detained at Lithuania’s border with Belarus this year, several times more than last year. Most of the migrants come from the Middle East and Africa.
Lithuanian officials say the surge in migration flows is a hybrid attack organized by the Belarusian regime.
Minsk claims that European Union (EU) sanctions no longer deter migrants on Belarusian territory.
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