Polish government will build a 2.5-meter-high fence on the border with Belarus
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A new 2.5-meter-high fence will be built on the border with Belarus, and the Polish government will also double the number of soldiers present there, the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, informed on Monday.
At the press conference, he explained that the Ministry of National Defense chose the design of the fence that has been standing on the Hungarian-Serbian border for several years. Its construction is to begin this week.
The head of the Ministry of National Defense said that in order for the border to be tight, "it is necessary to increase the number of soldiers who serve on a daily basis here at the border and support the Border Guard."
In recent months, the number of migrants from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and other countries has increased at the borders of Belarus with the EU. Most people have so far been sent to Lithuania, which has accused Belarus of organizing the transfer of immigrants to its territory under the so-called hybrid war.
On Monday morning in the town of Usnarz Górny, police officers strengthened the activities of the Border Guard and the army. They guard the border a few hundred meters from the migrant camp.
According to the data of the Polish Border Guard, 122 people who crossed the border were detained in the entire last year in the Podlasie section. This year it is about 780 foreigners. SG has so far recorded over 2,000 attempts to cross the border, the border guards prevented the majority of attempts (1,350).
