“Work will begin with drilling holes in the piles and setting them in the concrete,” a spokeswoman for the Polish Border Guard told PAP on Monday.
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As part of an extensive hybrid attack on the regime of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, attempts have been made since last spring to send thousands of illegal immigrants from Belarus to Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, most of them arriving in Belarus as tourists from Iraq.
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Poland’s border with Belarus is 418 kilometers long. Part of it is a river. At the end of August, Polish soldiers erected about 2.5 meters high barbed wire fences along the stretches of land. It is now planned to replace it with a permanent 5.5 meter high fence, which will be equipped with motion sensors and video cameras.
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Approximately 366 million euros are planned for the construction of the fence.
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