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.
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.
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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