![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/barbed-curtain-falls-across-europes-2000-mile-border-with-russia-belarus/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20457728-1668690482213.jpg&description=A NEW "barbed curtain" is falling across Europe as fearful nations reinforce their frontiers against Putin's "hybrid war" on the West. Poland, Lithuania and Finland are erecting steel walls and razor wire fences on the borders with Russia and its ally Belarus. Polish soldiers lay 8ft-high razor wire fences on the border with Kaliningrad this weekCredit: AP The barrier will stretch for 144 miles along the frontier with the Russian exclaveCredit: EPA Barbed wire and sentry posts loom over Lithuania's border with KaliningradCredit: Getty Fellow EU states Latvia and Estonia have also begun fencing their eastern borders, which snake through open countryside. They fear Vladimir Putin and his puppet dictator Alexander Lukashenko will "weaponise" migration to sow chaos in the West. Frontiers with a total length of 2,106 miles are due to be fortified by 2025 in a chilling echo of the Cold War's Iron Curtain. It comes after a rocket strayed over the border from Ukraine and killed two people in Poland, sparking crisis meetings at Nato. Earlier this month Polish troops began laying razor wire along the 144-mile border with Kaliningrad, Russia's exclave on the Baltic sea. Barbed defences 8ft high and 10ft wide will be supported by cameras, electronic monitoring and armed patrols. Lithuania has also reinforced its 171-mile border with Kaliningrad and called on Nato to beef up troop deployments and air defences. The territory - bristling with Russian missiles and a navy base - is sandwiched between the two EU countries and has long caused its neighbours anxiety. Tensions are higher than for decades after Putin's invasion of Ukraine stoked fears the Baltic nations could suffer the same fate. Finland - which stayed neutral through two world wars and threats from the Soviet Union - has now joined Nato along with peace-loving Sweden. And last month PM Sanna Martin confirmed plans to build a fence along the 830-mile border with Russia. Currently there are only wooden posts and low fenc){kind=link}
A NEW “barbed curtain” is falling across Europe as fearful nations reinforce their frontiers against Putin’s “hybrid war” on the West.
Poland, Lithuania and Finland are erecting steel walls and razor wire fences on the borders with Russia and its ally Belarus.
Fellow EU states Latvia and Estonia have also begun fencing their eastern borders, which snake through open countryside.
They fear Vladimir Putin and his puppet dictator Alexander Lukashenko will “weaponise” migration to sow chaos in the West.
Frontiers with a total length of 2,106 miles are due to be fortified by 2025 in a chilling echo of the Cold War’s Iron Curtain.