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The minister also mentions two new hangars to house the migrants, which the army is helping to build.
“We agreed with the Ministry of National Defense cooperation in the management of illegal migratory flows on the border with Belarus. We intend to use an army to provide assistance at the border. In the near future, the soldiers of the State Guard Service de Fronteras must join the border barriers, and this week they will contribute to the construction of a physical barrier in the hottest sections of the border, ”reported A. Bilotaitė on his Facebook account on Wednesday.
It also says the soldiers will help install two hangars to house migrants crossing the border illegally.
Giedrius Mišutis, spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service (SBGS), confirmed to BNS that the construction of a hangar on the Druskininkai firebreak has already been completed and will accept refugees from Thursday, the other should appear on the Firewall cable in the following days. days. Each hangar will be able to house about 70 migrants.
A. Bilotaitė claimed on Monday that a tent city for migrants should appear this week, Deputy Interior Minister Arnoldas Abramavičius said there would be about a thousand places in it. There is also a search for space for another migrant camp: the construction of modular houses, but neither the ministry nor the SBGS have detailed the plans yet.
Earlier Wednesday, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė confirmed that SBGS officials would help the military manage the situation at the border and that the future physical barrier, according to her, will be “a certain deterrent for organizers of illegal migration flows.” .
In recent months, Lithuania has faced increasing flows of illegal immigrants on the Belarusian border several times, this year more than 1.4 thousand have already been detained. foreigners, mainly from the Middle East, African countries. Lithuanian officials say this is an organized hybrid attack against the Belarusian regime against Lithuania.
