Poland to build 180km of border barrier, minister says

Poland will build a 180 kilometre-long barrier along its land border with Belarus, and equip it with movement detectors and day and night vision cameras, the interior minister has said. Mariusz Kaminski told the press on Thursday that the barrier will be supported by five-metre-high steel poles with barbed wire on top. In total, the wall will be 5.5 metres high. The barrier will only be built in the eastern Podlaskie region, while the Lubelskie region will have different protective measures as the Bug river provides a natural obstacle, he said.