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November 18 () –
Finland has reported this Friday that work will begin on a three-kilometre test fence on the eastern border with Russia by March 2023, with a view to which it is planned to build along the entire space that limits between the two countries to prevent illegal immigration.
The Finnish Border Service has specified that construction will begin in the town of Pelkola in the city of Imatra, near a checkpoint. The fence will start on the banks of the Wuoxi River and will be built in a northerly direction.
The border authorities have indicated that video surveillance will be installed around the entire perimeter. It is estimated that the final fence will be between 130 and 260 kilometers. Its construction is valued at “hundreds of millions” of euros and will last for the next three or four years, reports the Yle chain.
The government of the social democrat Sanna Marin has justified the need to build this fence to control the possibility of an increase in illegal crossings across a border of about 1,340 kilometers, the longest among all the countries of the European Union.
At the end of September, Finland approved the closure of the borders to Russian tourists, in full migratory escalation derived from the partial mobilization announced days before by President Vladimir Putin, thus adding to the restrictions in this regard that the Baltic countries had already adopted before. and Poland.
