On Monday, the Cabinet has approved a proposal by the Ministry of the Interior to install a physical barrier on the border with Belarus. It will be 508 km long, and is planned to be completed in 2022. The Government has also decided that the project will be carried out by the EPSO-G group of companies run by the Ministry of Energy.

Please be informed that illegal crossing of the border of the Republic of Lithuania incurs criminal responsibility under the laws of Lithuania.

Agnė Bilotaitė, head of emergency state operations, adopted a decision instructing all institutions ensuring the protection of the state border of the Republic of Lithuania to additionally take all necessary statutory measures to protect the state border of the Republic of Lithuania and measures not creating preconditions for illegal entry into the territory of the Republic of Lithuania. This decision was adopted given that hybrid attack implemented by the Belarusian regime is intensifying and the numbers of illegal migrants increased times after the state-level emergency situation was declared.

The European Border and Coast Guard Agency FRONTEX will send more forces to Lithuania than originally planned. They will be deployed on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border where an increased flow of illegal migrants has recently been recorded.