Five Baltic countries have begin to reinforce their borders with barbed wire Friday amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a media report.
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland fear that Russia and Belarus will “weaponize migration” by sending refugees through EU countries, said the MailOnline news outlet in the UK.
Russia sent thousands of asylum-seekers to Finland's border in 2015 and 2016, while in 2021, the EU accused Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko of forcing migrants to make illegal crossings into Europe.
Poland has already built a 115-mile steel wall in response and has placed barbed wire around its border with Russia.
Finland and other Baltic states are following suit and are reinforcing their borders with barbed wire.
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin said the country’s 830-mile border with Russia will be "fortified."
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