The purpose of the wall is to stop the travel of refugees arriving via Belarus.
Lithuania has built the first parts of a wall rising on the Belarusian border, according to Reuters.
The wall is intended to stop the movement of migrants entering the EU via Belarus. Belarus has flown migrants to the capital, Minsk, from Iran, Iraq and African countries, among others, and redirected them across the EU to the EU via the borders of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.
It is a hybrid influence that Belarus is trying to confuse and violate the unity of the EU.
Poland and Latvia are also building walls on their border with Belarus.
EU countries leaders discussed Belarus’ activities at the October European Council. According to EU leaders, the Union does not accept the use of migrants for political purposes by non-EU countries.
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Belarus has denied hybrid influence. President of the country Alexander Lukashenko has stated, however, that Belarus is admitting asylum seekers to the EU’s borders in response to sanctions imposed on it by the Union.
All three EU countries sharing a border with Belarus have since announced that they will install barbed wire at their borders to prevent the arrival of migrants.
After Lithuania more than 4,000 refugees arrived from Belarus this year before the beginning of August, after which the country began to turn them back.
According to the Lithuanian Border Guard, more than 5,600 migrants have sought entry since the beginning of August. Of these, 2,300 tried to enter Lithuania in October.
The situation of migrants at the EU’s external borders is poor. The UN has called for immediate action to save lives and avoid suffering at the border.
Lithuania began construction of the first parts of the wall rising to its limit last week.
The wall consists of a 3.4 meter high steel fence, on top of which a layer of barbed wire about 0.6 meters thick is installed. In addition, there will be piles of barbed wire about three meters high next to the wall, and the wall will be monitored by cameras.
“It is probably impossible to build a completely insurmountable obstacle, so I believe that this obstacle can also be overcome. But it would take a long time, so we would have time to react, “said the Southern Lithuanian border guard. Virgilijus Raugale.
The Lithuanian government has allocated EUR 152 million for the construction of the wall. The five-hundred-kilometer-long wall is scheduled for completion by September 2022.
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