Public Forest Management Center (CHUL) Estonia will continue to equip the border with Russia, preparation has already begun to the second stage of work. This was announced by the head of the southeastern region of the Estonian department of Cristo Cockk, writes ERR.
Kokk told that the staff of CAGL began to cut forward the forest on the border site between the villages of Cerebi and Vymorsk, where shrubs and high forests grow. According to him, cutting down and milling work will be completed by the end of January 2022.
He also noted that the first stage of work began in 2020 continues in parallel with the preparation of the second stage. They pass on a plot of 23.5 kilometers – from the triple border of Estonia, Latvia and Russia in the suburb of Luhamaa to the border point of Luhamaa. Kokk added that all access roads and obstacles have already been created there, as well as pontoon roads, with the help of which Estonian border guards will move through the wetlands.
In July 2020, Estonia began work to strengthen the border with Russia. For three years, the country’s authorities plan to build infrastructure on a segment between Võrumaa and Luhamaa. Fully arrangement of the cross-border zone is planned to be completed until 2027. The cost of all work is estimated at 130.5 million euros (more than 11 billion rubles).
In 2016, the Estonian government approved the project for the arrangement of the Estonian-Russian border. Then the Foreign Minister Hanno Pevkur stated that the authorities of the republic intend to make the cross-border infrastructure “most modern in the European Union” and equip it with one hundred percent technical control, including video surveillance and drone.