Lithuania on Friday began putting up a razor-wire fence along its border with Belarus.
It accused Belarusian authorities of encouraging the flow of migrants illegally into Lithuania, an EU member state, in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Belarus by the bloc over human rights abuses and other issues. 1,500 people have crossed into Lithuania from Belarus in the past two months — a number 20 times than seen in the whole of 2020.
The fence will be constructed of two layers of barbed wire and cover 550 kilometers (340 miles) of the nearly 680-kilometer border. The barrier will cost €41 million ($48 million) to put up.
Lithuania starts building Belarus border anti-migrant fence | News | DW | 09.07.2021
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