Poland begins work on a “temporary barrier” on the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad

Nov. 2 () –

The Polish Defense Minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, reported on Wednesday the start of construction work on “a temporary barrier” on the 210-kilometer border that he shares with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Blaszczak explained that the decision had been taken at a security session of the Council of Ministers after information about the arrival of flights 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 around the world”, similar to the one that Poland already built at the beginning of years on its border with Belarus, says the newspaper ‘Dziennik’

From Warsaw, Minsk has been accused of having orchestrated an artificial migratory flow of thousands of people from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan in retaliation for the sanctions imposed by the European Union for the repression of the protests over the results of the August elections. of 2020, in which the president, Alexander Lukashenko, revalidated his mandate again.

Now Poland accuses Russia of carrying out the same maneuver to destabilize them for its support for Ukraine in the war started just over eight months ago by Russian President Vladimir Putin.