Latvia building fence at Belarus border

September 15, BPN. Latvia has started building a permanent 173-kilometer-long fence at its shared border with Belarus, Delfi reported.

The construction of the four-meter-high fence is to be completed by 2024.

Poland and Lithuania have already built fences along their common border with Belarus.

The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border dates back to the spring of 2021. It escalated on November 8, 2021, when thousands of migrants set up a camp near the Polish border. The Baltic states and Poland accused Belarusian authorities of creating the trouble at the border, while the latter blamed it on the West.

Migration figures had dropped significantly by the time Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, but have risen more recently.