Poland’s authorities decided to build a fence on the border with Belarus against the background of the aggravation of the migration crisis. About this in its Twitter said the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Mariusch Blazkak.
According to him, the fence will allow to limit the flow of illegal migrants, which through the territory of Belarus run to the countries of the European Union. “On the border with Belarus, a new solid fence is 2.5 meters high,” Blazhak said. The head of the defense department also added that the contingent of troops will be increased to protect the border, about a thousand military are involved.
On August 20, it became known about several dozen illegal migrants stuck between Poland and Belorussia. They tried to illegally cross the border of Poland by Belarus. Having achieved neutral territory, migrants turned out to be blocked by Polish border guards on one side and Belarusian – on the other.
Later, the Department of Foreign Affairs of Poland appealed to the Belarusian authorities with a proposal to provide humanitarian assistance to a group of migrants that wagged on the border between the two countries. With the consent of the Belarusian side, the entry columns with humanitarian cargo on the territory of Belarus will be made by the shortest route.
In Belarus, this appeal was not commented, and the President of the country Alexander Lukashenko accused Poland in the unleashing of the border conflict with Belarus against the background of an incident with refugees from Afghanistan. According to him, a few days ago, Polish border guards detained a large group of migrants and threatened the use of force forced her to return to the territory of Belarus. He complained that now he will have to be responsible for this problem.