Polish Senator Mruz promised to lay the foundation of the wall on the eastern border in December walls on the border with Belarus on December 15 this year, and revealed the details of the construction. After signing the contracts, the Poles plan to immediately start work and lay the foundation, RIA Novosti reports.
Mruz promised that the wall would reliably close the 180-kilometer section of the Polish border. To do this, it is planned to increase its height to five meters, equip the structure with motion sensors, night and day vision cameras.
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The cost of the wall project on the eastern border is estimated at 353 million euros. In Warsaw, they intend to work around the clock, in three work shifts.
The country's parliament approved the initiative to build protective lines at the end of October 2021.
The total length of the Belarusian-Polish border is almost 400 kilometers … There are 12 checkpoints on the border. The decision to build a wall in Warsaw was made after the migration crisis began in early November on the eastern border of the country. Thousands of refugees from the Middle East approached the barriers at the border and tried to enter the territory of the European Union. The Polish security forces had to use additional forces to contain the pressure of migrants.