The Polish General Staff announced the call of the army to build a fence on the border of the Kaliningrad region with Russia.
The authorities announced that the barbed wire would be 3 rows, 2.5 m high and 3 m wide. Polish authorities said the fence was being built out of fear of an immigration crisis on the border with Russia, similar to the crisis that erupted last year on the border between Poland and Poland. Belarus.
The report of the General Staff says that the Polish army “supports the border guards in protecting the borders of the country, as the servicemen of the engineering units are building a temporary fence on the border of the Kaliningrad region with Russia.”
He stated that servicemen of the 2nd and 5th engineer regiments, the 2nd engineer regiment and the 15th engineer battalion are participating in the construction of the barrier.
In 2021, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland reported an increase in the number of detained illegal immigrants from the countries of the Middle East and Africa on the border with Belarus, and Minsk was accused of creating a migration crisis, while the Belarusian side categorically denied this, while the Belarusian border guards repeatedly stated about forced expulsion of migrants by Lithuania, Poland and Latvia to the territory of Belarus.
Source: RIA Novosti