Kaminsky said the fence would be a symbol of Poland’s determination to fight illegal migration. PAP. He stressed that this is not about migration for natural reasons, “because of natural disasters, political and armed conflicts”, but about the element of a hybrid war “waged by the Belarusian regime in order to destabilize the situation in Poland and the EU.”
The wall will consist of 5 m high steel pillars, over which an additional barbed wire barrier will be fixed. The total height of the structure will be 5.5 m. Motion sensors and cameras will also be installed along the border to ensure observation in the daytime and at night. It is planned to build the structure in six months.
The length of the fence in the Podlaskie Voivodeship will be 180 km, and in the Lubelskie Voivodeship, where the Western Bug is a natural barrier, other ways of strengthening the border will be used.
The government also plans to increase the number of border guards by 750 people.
This year the Baltic states and Poland faced the problem of illegal migration from Belarus.
In Lithuania, they believe that Alexander Lukashenko, who calls himself president, has deliberately weakened his control over the border. The Lithuanian Defense Ministry stated that Belarus instructs illegal immigrants at the border.
On July 13, the Lithuanian Seimas officially recognized the influx of migrants from Belarus as hybrid aggression… except Lithuania, an emergency situation on the border with Belarus was declared in Latvia and Poland.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on September 17 that there are more than 10 thousand migrants from the countries of the Middle East, which can be used to conduct a hybrid attack against Poland and Lithuania.
The Presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland Gitanas Nauseda, Egils Levits, Kersti Kaljulaid and Andrzej Duda issued a joint declaration during their meeting in Kiev on 23 August. In a statement migration crisis on the border with Belarus they called it “a politically controlled hybrid operation carried out by the Lukashenka regime” in which “defenseless third-country nationals are exploited.” Its purpose is to “divert attention from the more frequent violations of human and civil rights by the regime“.
Due to the influx of migrants power Lithuania, Latvia and Poland decided to build a fence on the border with Belarus. Poland has allocated more than $ 400 million for the construction of a wall on the border with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
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