The Russian government plans to complete before July 2018 the construction of barrier structures along the de-facto border of annexed Crimea with Ukraine.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has announced an auction on building a two-meter high fence in the Krasnoperekopsky district of the Crimean peninsula bordering mainland Ukraine, TASS reports.
Polish Minister of Agriculture Krzysztof Jurgiel has said the authorities intend to put up a fence along Poland’s border with Belarus and Ukraine to protect the country’s territory from wild boars amid fears that it is these animals who brought in African Swine Fever, Radio Poland reports.
Lithuania has began constructing a two-meter high wire fence along its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad ahead of military exercises Moscow is planning to hold there in September, according to Reuters.