WARSAW, 24 August 2021, (TON): Poland intends to build a twisted barbed wire fence on the border with Belarus. This was stated at a briefing by the Minister of Defense of the Republic Mariusz Blaszczak.

He said “the decision to strengthen the border is based on the construction of a fence to be installed along the military wire.”

Blashchak said “work on the construction of the wall will begin this week. Its height will be 2.5 meters. It will be created from twisted wire, laid one on top of the other”

“It will be a solid fence,” he added, without disclosing the cost of the project and its scale.

The total length of the Polish-Belarusian border is 418 km. As reported last week by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, until now the barbed wire fence has been used to guard almost 100 km of the border in the area guarded by the Podlaska Border Guard Service.

Against the background of the current migration crisis, the authorities announced their intention to further fence off another 50 km of the border section.