{"id":47311,"date":"2023-06-19T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lithuania-starts-construction-of-patrol-road-along-shared-border-with-belarus\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lithuania-starts-construction-of-patrol-road-along-shared-border-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47311\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania starts construction of patrol road along shared border with Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>June 19, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Lithuania has started construction of a border patrol road along its shared border with Belarus, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bns.lt\/topic\/1912\/news\/68957641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BNS<\/a><\/span> reported, citing Interior Minister Agn\u0117 Bilotait\u0117.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The three-and-a-half-meter-wide road will run next to the border fence and the control strip and will be used by border guards and special vehicles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t It will boost the protection of the state border and ensure faster response to border violations and fence breaches, the official said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t About 100 kilometers of the border road will be constructed at the first stage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Lithuania tightened controls at its shared borders with Belarus and Russia as much as possible, its interior ministry said noting that Lithuania&#8217;s section of the EU external border is the most protected one. The border fence protects 530 km of Lithuania\u2019s 679-km border with Belarus. A section of 360 km is equipped with barbed wire and border surveillance systems.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The fence construction was one of the measures to resolve the migration crisis at the Belarus-EU border which dates back to the spring of 2021. It escalated in November 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, while the latter blamed it on the West.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On June 15, Polish Border Guard reported the completion of a 206-kilometer electronic barrier at the border with Belarus equipped with 3,000 surveillance cameras and 400 km of detector cables.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Latvia is also building a physical barrier at its border with Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 19, BPN. Lithuania has started construction of a border patrol road along its shared border with Belarus, BNS reported, citing Interior Minister Agn\u0117 Bilotait\u0117. The three-and-a-half-meter-wide road will run next to the border fence and the control strip and will be used by border guards and special vehicles. It will boost the protection of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47311","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lithuania starts construction of patrol road along shared border with Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 19, BPN. 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