(ORDO NEWS) — Estonia sent 105 km of wire and 20 people to Lithuania to guard the border with Belarus.
During the migration crisis, Lithuania received 105 kilometers of barbed wire from Estonia to install a fence on the border with Belarus , and Estonia also sent 20 employees and two drones to Lithuania, said Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Lithuania Arnoldas Abramavicius at a meeting with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Rein Tammsaar …
“During the migration crisis, on the basis of a bilateral agreement on humanitarian aid in accordance with the EU civil security mechanism, Lithuania received 105 kilometers of barbed wire from Estonia to build a fence along the Lithuanian-Belarusian border. ), and the Estonian Police and Border Guard Service sent 13 officers, 2 dog handlers and 2 drones with operators (17 employees in total) to assist in suppressing the increased flows of illegal migrants on the border of Lithuania and Belarus, “the statement on the website of the Lithuanian Ministry of Internal Affairs says.
Several thousand migrants have accumulated on the border of Belarus and Poland in the past few weeks, hoping to get to the EU countries. The Polish authorities have strengthened border security, pulled in the military and thwarted attempts by illegal immigrants to enter the country, blaming Minsk for the migration crisis. All these accusations are denied by Belarus, claiming that Poland is forcibly expelling migrants.
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