WARSAW: Poland will build 6 watchtowers to survey its 200 kilometer long border at cost of 14 million zloty, with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. The six towers will be up to 50 metres high and ready in June for round-the-clock surveillance, the spokeswoman for Poland’s border police told the PAP news agency.
Miroslawa Aleksandrowicz said that 75 per cent of the amount would come from an EU fund for external borders. Kaliningrad is near the Baltic Sea, sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, both EU members. Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite said last month that Russia had sent nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, which could “reach even Berlin”.
