Construction of the fence continues. Its goal is to make it more difficult for illegal migrants to cross the Belarusian-Polish border.
Poland tries to stop attempts at illegal migrants cross the EU border from Belarus and build a barrier. To date, its length has reached about 60 km, according to DW.
Construction work is on schedule and is expected to be completed by the end of June, said a spokeswoman for the Polish Border Guard on Saturday, May 7.
In late summer and autumn last year, the situation there worsened. Thousands of migrants arriving in Belarus from crisis regions have tried to enter the European Union illegally. The EU accuses Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of arranging for migrants to be brought to the EU's external border in order to put pressure on the West.
crossing the Polish-Belarusian border has increased again. According to border guards, 76 people tried to cross it from Belarus last Friday alone.
At the end of August 2021, Polish border guards had already erected a temporary barrier of barbed wire about 2.5 meters high on the land sections of the border to make it difficult for migrants to cross it. At the end of January, it was replaced by a 5.5-meter-high stationary barrier equipped with motion sensors and surveillance cameras. The budget allocated for this project is 366 million euros.
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At one time, Muammar Gaddafi threatened Europe that could allow the flow of migrants there. , and then Europe will become Africa. It seems that the Eastern European ideological successor of the African dictator Alexander Lukashenko has decided to implement this plan.
The migration war of the self-proclaimed president of Belarus against Lithuania and Poland has been going on since last summer, when countries began to expel illegal migrants from the Middle East. However, at that time it was still local, although quite strong outbreaks of tension in some parts of the border. In the autumn, the crisis became a sign of a humanitarian catastrophe.
