“For God's sake, let them build.

If they (the collective West and various financial institutions.

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) stop financing various mutually beneficial projects in Belarus, impose sanctions, even industry-specific ones ... Let them not be offended that migrants ran to them, because we are the funds that were previously allocated for more strict border security, we will transfer to the needs of ordinary people, ”he said.

As Bilotaite reported, the length of the fence, which will be installed on the border between Lithuania and Belarus, will be 550 km.

Earlier, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda had previously convened a meeting of the State Defense Council due to the migration crisis.

The border guards recorded a record figure for the number of detained immigrants from Asian countries trying to illegally penetrate into the interior of the country through the border with Belarus.

On July 9, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the accusations of the European Union and a number of countries against Belarus in the migration crisis ridiculous and ridiculous.