Wall intends to defend its borders from “provocations”, says Lithuania. (Representative)
Vilnius:
Lithuania said on Friday that the Baltic state and five other NATO members, neighbors of Russia, had agreed to build a “wall of drones” to defend their borders from “provocations”.
The plan to use unmanned aerial vehicles for protection was agreed due to security concerns in the region amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite announced the plan after talks with her counterparts from the Baltic states, Estonia and Latvia, as well as Finland, Norway and Poland.
“This is something completely new, a wall of drones stretching from Norway to Poland, and the aim is to use drones and other technologies to protect our borders,” she told the BNS news agency.
“Not only with physical infrastructure, surveillance systems, but also with drones and other technologies, which would allow us to protect against provocations from hostile countries and prevent smuggling,” she said.
In addition to deploying drones to monitor the border, countries would also use anti-drone systems to stop enemy UAVs.
Bilotaite did not give a time frame for the plan.
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