The Lithuanian-Belarusian border, protected by a fence, will be equipped with video monitoring systems by the end of 2022, the Interior Minister of Lithuania Agnė Bilotaitė said, Report informs.
“The state border protection service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania undertook to install surveillance video equipment along the entire border with Belarus, protected by an engineering barrier, the construction of which was completed last week, by the end of the year,” the minister said.
At the moment, 55 percent of the border with Belarus and 70 percent of the Lithuanian border with Belarus and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation are equipped with video monitoring systems. For implementing these systems on the external borders of the EU, which coincide with the borders of Lithuania with Belarus and Russia, Vilnius received 70 million euros from Brussels.