Poland has begun building a state-of-the-art electronic barrier at its land border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave to monitor and counteract any illegal activity, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on April 18. The barrier, which will be equipped with 24-hour monitoring cameras and motion detectors, will run for 210 kilometers and is due to be completed in the fall. The EU member country last year built a wall on its border with Belarus to stop an influx of migrants that Warsaw said was organized by Belarus and Russia to destabilize Poland and the rest of the EU. To read the original story by AP, click here.
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