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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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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a briefing that Russia would not interfere with any such decision. "History proves the stupidity of decisions to build walls every time, because over the years or decades, all walls fall," he said.