LONDON, 13 November 2021, (TON): The UK Department of Defense has confirmed that British troops will help the Polish authorities to strengthen the border with Belarus.

The statement said “the UK and Poland as NATO members have a long history of friendship. A small team of British military personnel was deployed after an agreement with the Polish government to study how we can provide engineering support to resolve the evolving situation on the Belarusian border.”

Earlier, the Polish Min-istry of Defense also infor-med via Twitter that the so-ldiers of the two countries “will cooperate in strengthening the fence on the Polish-Belarusian border.”

As previously reported, the Polish authorities are planning to build a new five-meter fence on the border with Belarus, since the recently erected barbed wire fence did not become a serious obstacle for migrants.

A new, more reliable structure in the republic has already been designed and funds have been allocated for construction. The fence will cost Poland 1.615 billion zlotys (about $ 414 million), of which 115 million zlotys will be spent on technical equipment, sensors, surveillance equipment and other modern instruments. All this money will be allocated from the country’s budget.