Poland begins work on new EU-Belarus border wall to deter migrant crossings

5m-high wall will run along 186km of the border - almost half the total length - and is to be completed in June.

"As planned, the construction sites were turned over to the contractors on Tuesday," said Krystyna Jakimik-Jarosz, a border guard spokeswoman."The Belarusian services are just waiting for that, so that they can send migrants over to the site," Jakimik-Jarosz told AFP.The construction has raised human rights concerns over how migrants will be able to seek asylum, as well as environmental worries about the effect on wildlife along the mostly forested border.

"We'll do everything we can to keep the damage to the environment and animals to a minimum," Jakimik-Jarosz said. Thousands of migrants - mostly from the Middle East - crossed or attempted to cross the border from Belarus into Poland last year. saying it had encouraged would-be migrants to fly to Belarus with the promise of an easy journey on foot into the European Union.Poland branded the migrant crisis a"hybrid" attack from Belarus and its main ally Russia, referring to a type of warfare using non-military tactics.- the main country of origin.

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