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Poland mulls barrier on Kaliningrad border, says top official

Krzysztof Sobolewski, general secretary of the ruling Law and Justice party, told public broadcaster Polskie Radio 1 that Poland was considering building a barrier, similar to the one it has constructed on the Belarus border, on the frontier with Russia's Kaliningrad. "We will have to strengthen our forces on this section of the border and also consider ... building similar border fortifications to those we now have on the Polish-Belarusian section," he said.

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"After what we had to deal with, and are still dealing with on the Polish-Belarus border, and considering the opening of the skies above the Kaliningrad region for aeroplanes from Turkey, Syria and Belarus, it could be in the coming weeks," Sobolewski later told Reuters, referring to increasing arrivals of migrants.