Lithuania has constructed the primary stretches of a metal fence on its border with Belarus since migrants from the Center East and different areas started coming into from Belarus this yr.
The European Union accuses Belarus of intentionally encouraging the migrants to enter EU states Poland, Lithuania and Latvia by way of Belarusian territory as a approach of placing strain on the bloc.
Belarus has repeatedly denied this however its president, Alexander Lukashenko, has stated his nation would now not cease the migrants since EU sanctions drain sources.
To cease the migrants, Lithuania started placing up the primary stretches of the three.4-meter (11-foot) excessive metal fence, topped with 0.6 meters (2 toes) of razor wire final week.
“It’s most likely not possible to construct a completely unpassable impediment, so I believe that this barrier can too be overcome. However that might take a very long time, and we’d have the ability to react,” Chief Border Guard in southern Lithuania Virgilijus Raugale stated on Thursday (November 4).
Lithuania has allotted 152 million euros (175 million {dollars}) to construct 500 kilometres (300 miles) of the wall by September subsequent yr. The wall is supplemented by a 3-meter-high (10-feet-high) heap of coiled razor wire subsequent to it and video surveillance tools.
Greater than 4,000 migrants entered Lithuania from Belarus this yr earlier than August, when the nation resorted to sending virtually all coming into migrants again to Belarus.
Over 5,600 migrants have been prevented from coming into since then, the border guard service stated, together with 2,300 who tried to enter in October.
Each Latvia and Poland have additionally put up stretches of razor wire on the border to cease the migrants.