Poland will build a razor-wire fence on its border with Russia’s Kaliningrad, its defence minister has said, amid concerns that the enclave might become a conduit for illegal migration.
Construction of the temporary 2.5-meter (eight feet) high and 3-meter deep barrier will start immediately, Mariusz Blaszczak told a news conference.
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With tensions rising due to the war in Ukraine, he cited security concerns and referred a crisis triggered last autumn when thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants tried to cross the Belarus border into Poland, some of whom died.
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Blaszczak said the Kaliningrad barrier would be similar to the one that Poland set up along the border with Belarus last year.
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