The Polish Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday the creation of an electronic protection system along the border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to prevent the illegal crossing of migrants in operations that Warsaw accuses the Russian authorities of organizing.
The new system will be added to the barbed wire barrier that is currently being built along the border, which extends over a distance of about 200 kilometers.
"We will have complete monitoring of what is happening at the border," Mariusz Kaminsky said in a statement.
The project, which has an estimated cost of 80 million euros, will include 3,000 surveillance cameras and motion detectors.
In September 2021, Warsaw built a 400-kilometer fence on its border with Belarus, about three kilometers wide, in order to avoid a migration crisis that Poland considers a "war" that Russia and Belarus are running against it.
In Poland, it is forbidden to approach a distance of 200 meters from these borders, which are protected by a five-meter-high iron barrier that is equipped with cameras and motion detectors.
Despite Poland's pushback against migrants, border guards and non-governmental organizations report every day about 100 attempts to illegally cross the Belarusian-Polish border by migrants, mostly from countries in the Middle East.
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Poland deploys an electronic security system on its border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad