Another country wants to fence itself off from russia with "wall" of mines

Lithuania will join Poland and create a protective strip of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines on the border with the aggressor country of russia.

This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the republic, Dovilė Šakalienė.

According to her, the day before, she and her Polish counterpart, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, held a bilateral meeting, at which they discussed the development of a plan to strengthen border protection by expanding the package of measures to combat mobility.

"Following the example of Poland, the border of NATO's northeastern flank can be strengthened with several layers of fortifications, including anti-personnel and anti-tank mines," the press service of the Lithuanian Defense Ministry quoted Šakalienė as saying.

She added that regional partners intend to seek this initiative from the European Union.

Šakalienė added that earlier, at meetings with her colleagues from Poland and Finland, they discussed the unification of the Eastern Shield and Baltic Line of Defense programs aimed at deterring possible russian aggression.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on March 18, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia announced their intention to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the production, use, and stockpiling of anti-personnel mines.

And on March 19, the Polish Ministry of Defense announced that Warsaw would produce a million anti-personnel mines for installation on the border with russia and Belarus.