Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak on Wednesday reported the start of work on the construction of «a temporary barrier» on the 210-kilometer border it shares with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Blaszczak explained that the decision was made at a security session of the Council of Ministers following reports of flights arriving from North Africa and the Middle East at Kaliningrad airport. «We have decided to seal this border to strengthen security,» he said.
This «temporary barrier» will consist of three lines of barbed wire, «like those used by militaries all over the world», similar to the one already built by Poland earlier in the years on its border with Belarus, reports the daily ‘Dziennik’ From Warsaw, Minsk has been accused of having orchestrated an artificial migration flow of thousands of people from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan in retaliation for the sanctions imposed by the European Union for the repression of protests against the results of the August 2020 elections, in which President Alexander Lukashenko revalidated his mandate again.
Poland now accuses Russia of carrying out the same maneuver to destabilize them for their support of Ukraine in the war initiated just over eight months ago by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
