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EU expands its activities on the borders of Lithuania and Belarus. The Frontex border control agency will send more than a dozen other experts to the region. This is due to the increase in illegal migration in this area.
In order to control the borders from the air, two military helicopters will be relocated to Lithuania – from Poland and Germany. The head of the Baltic Republic, Gitanas Nauseda, requested such assistance.
On July 1, the agency sent 10 of its employees and several patrol cars to the border with Lithuania and Belarus. The relocation of specialists began after a sharp increase in the influx of illegal migrants in the area. About five hundred violators were detained here for 4 weeks. That's six times more than in the whole of last year.
Lithuania has one of the longest external parts of the Schengen area. It is 1070 km. More than half of them lie on the border with Belarus. At the end of May, Alexander Lukashenko announced that he would no longer prevent the influx of illegal migrants into the European Union. The reason is the fact that the country “has no power and money” due to Western sanctions.