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Its installation would cost a total of more than 150 million. euros.
“We plan to build right next to the state border, no less than four meters above the ground, we would already be here with Concertina,” Colonel Vidas Mačaitis, deputy commander of SBGS, told BNS on Monday.
According to him, the fence would be made of welded rod mesh, and at the top it would end with Y-shaped rods on which a cutting wire called Concertina would be mounted.
“It would be reinforced (the mesh fence – BNS) so that it could not be cut so easily,” said V. Mačaitis.
SBGS proposes to install 508 km of fences of this type on the border with Belarus.
According to the official, you want to build a single fence, because twice Lithuania has no place.
“It just came to our knowledge then. We don’t have territories like the Hungarians either. It would be the only fence near the state border,” said the colonel.
The SBGS estimates that the installation of said fence with Concertina would cost 152,460 million. euros.
“We are preparing technical specifications and will start procurement procedures in the near future. Of course, the biggest problem is money,” the deputy commander told BNS.
Depending on funding, building a fence can take as long as a year to three.
“From the signing of the contract, 98 km of work would take, we estimate, about seven months. The next stages – 227 km would last up to a year and 182 km – also up to a year, “said V. Mačaitis.
“Everything can go in parallel, it just depends on the funds. We plan in stages if the funds were allocated in installments ”, he explained.
The SBGS deputy commander doubted that the installation of the fence could begin as early as this year.
“It just came to our attention then. I think work will only start next year,” he said.
According to the official, first of all, the fence would be built in the most vulnerable places: towards the border with Latvia and towards the border with Poland.
According to V. Mačaitis, it was considered to build a brick wall, but the Lithuanian soil is not suitable for it: too many swamps and bogs.
“All options have been considered, the best one has been evaluated and we will build one,” he said.
Ylva Johansson, the European commissioner who visited there, said on Monday a physical barrier is needed on the border with Belarus.
According to the Interior Ministry, the installation of a physical barrier on the border with Belarus, including surveillance and other systems, could cost a total of around 500 million euros.
Johanssson said he could not yet say whether the fence could be financed with funds from the European Union.
This year, nearly 4,000 people crossed the border from Belarus into Lithuania. illegal migrants. That number is more than a dozen times higher than it was in 2020.
Lithuania has declared an emergency situation due to the increase in illegal immigration. The country’s officials take the position that the increase in migratory flows is an organized action of the Minsk regime against Lithuania.
