The situation on the border does not bode well: the army has made an important decision



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A. Anušauskas announced this on Facebook on Friday.

“The Lithuanian Armed Forces are ready to provide support for the installation of a two-zone tent city with a capacity of up to 350 people, with electricity generators and sanitary equipment, on the territory of the Foreigners Registration Center in Pabradė, “said the Minister. wrote.

According to him, such a request was received from the Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė.

“The decision to allocate human and material resources for the installation of the tent camp and ensuring its operation was taken by the KAS management in response to the official request received from the Minister of the Interior,” added A. Anušauskas.

Arvydas Anušauskas

Arvydas Anušauskas

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At the border with Belarus, Lithuanian border guards detained another 32 illegal immigrants, the total number of whom surpassed 300 this year, the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) reported on Friday.

Early Friday, two groups of migrants were arrested: six and nine people, who were detained by the border guards of the Vilnius team at the Puškai firebreak in the morning.

At the moment, border guards are finding out what the country’s citizens are like.

Later, SBGS reported that a group of 17 more migrants were detained by the Puški border guards in the morning.

All detainees will be screened for COVID-19. The identities of the aliens are established.

“They will be handed over to the firewalls, perhaps the same actions as usual have been carried out: their isolation, awaiting proof and transportation, most likely to the Alien Registration Center or the dormitory of the Border Guard School,” he said. to BNS the representative of SBGS, Giedrius Mišutis. .

According to the latest SBGS data, 329 illegal immigrants from Belarus tried to enter Lithuania this year. Most of them are Iraqi citizens.

That number is four times higher than in all of 2020: 81 aliens of this type were arrested last year. In 2019, border guards captured 46 illegal immigrants, and in 2018, 104.

With the increasing flow of illegal immigrants from Belarus, the Alien Registration Center in Pabradė is filling up with accommodation, some immigrants are being housed in the border school dormitory, and a temporary tent camp is being prepared.

At the end of May, in the Belarusian parliament, Aliaksandr Lukashenko declared that after the international reaction to the forced landing of a passenger plane in Minsk, Belarus would stop arresting migrants, Lithuania sees as a deliberate action of the Minsk regime against Vilnius, strongly support democratic processes in Belarus.

With the recent increase in the number of such cases, SBGS has strengthened border security with Belarus. In addition to various organizational measures, border guards from other units were assigned to this section and additional technical resources were assigned. In addition, the border guards are assisted by forces from the Public Security Service and the Riflemen’s Union.

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