Belarus border barrier to be finished by end-June

The contractors responsible for a fence on Poland's border with Belarus have said work is going to schedule and should be finished by the end of June, a Border Guard spokesperson has told PAP. Lieutenant Anna Michalska added that the Border Guard has already received a design for an electronic barrier and will start working on it in June. Construction of the physical barrier, to be built along a 187-kilometre stretch of the border, has been ongoing for four months, since its commencement on January 25. The crisis on Polish-Belarussian border started last summer when thousands of migrants, most from the Middle East, attempted to cross the Polish frontier from Belarus and enter the European Union.