Poland to build Russia border towers at Kaliningrad

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    Poland to build Russia border towers at Kaliningrad - BBC News
    ▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32194278

    Poland is to build observation towers along its land border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to a Polish news agency.
    The six towers will be up to 50m (164ft) high and will stream images to Polish guards monitoring the 200km (124-mile) border, the PAP agency says.
    The total cost is reported to be 14m zloty (£2.5m; $3.8m), with 75% coming from the EU’s External Borders Fund.
    The move follows reports that Russia has deployed missiles to Kaliningrad.
    The reported deployment by Russia of short-range Iskander missiles comes amid heightened tensions with the West and Nato over Ukraine.

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      Contrairement à ce que laisse entendre la BBC, il s’agirait uniquement de poursuivre le bétonnage de la frontière de l’UE.

      Watchtowers on Poland-Russia border ’not linked’ to Ukraine conflict
      ▻https://euobserver.com/foreign/128250

      Poland says its plan to build watchtowers on its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is not linked to the Ukraine crisis.
      Joanna Rokicka, a spokeswoman for the Polish Border Guard, told EUobserver on Tuesday (7 April) that the scheme, which is part-funded by the European Commission, was agreed “quite some time ago, before the events in Ukraine”.

      “We are building the towers purely for migration-control purposes. It’s not designed to prevent any situation linked to the current crisis in Ukraine”.
      A spokesman for the Polish foreign ministry, who asked to remain anonymous, added: “Small-border traffic between Poland and Kaliningrad is important, with almost 7 million Polish and Russian crossings over the green line each year”.

      “This is designed to prevent illegal crossings and it’s not linked to the current situation in Ukraine”.

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