The State Border Guard Service at the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania informs that it has no data on the body of a migrant found on the Belarusian side of the border, as the country's authorities announced on Sunday.

In response to the complicated situation on the Poland-Belarus border, the Government has endorsed a proposal by the Ministry of the Interior regarding the state of emergency with effect from 10 November.

Tetas, a company of the EPSO-G group implementing the project for the construction of a physical barrier on the border with Belarus, has started installing 4-metre-high fence segments on key sections. Firstly, fence segments are being installed in the border section near Druskininkai, where concertina wire has already been laid. On Wednesday, EPSO-G ...

Tetas, a company of the EPSO-G group implementing the physical barrier project at the border with Belarus, has started construction work of the first phase of the project, as discussed today at a meeting of the Project Supervision Commission. Marking has been started in the sections of Druskininkai, A. Barauskas, and Adutiškis frontier stations, and ...

To date, a total of 2 962 illegal migrants have been registered and 2 804 asylum applications filed, as reported by the Migration Department and the SBGS. 517 cases are unregistered, as some of the migrants have refused registration and did not apply for asylum, while others are COVID-19 patients and under quarantine. 164 migrants have been returned from ...

The construction of the physical barrier on the most important, approximately 111-kilometer-long border sections with Belarus will be performed by UAB Tetas, a company of the EPSO-G group. The decision was approved by the Project Supervision Commission headed by the Prime Minister. On Monday, the Commission approved ...

The more than 500-kilometres-long physical barrier project will be implemented in two phases, with the first works on the most important 100-kilometre stretch starting in the second half of September. This was decided on Saturday by the Commission for the Supervision of the Project of the Physical ...

On Monday, the Cabinet has approved a proposal by the Ministry of the Interior to install a physical barrier on the border with Belarus. It will be 508 km long. The Government has also decided that the project will be carried out by the EPSO-G group of companies run by the Ministry of Energy.

Today in Šalčininkai District, at the section administered by Gintaras Žagunis frontier station, Belarusian force structures armed with shields and riot control equipment have forcibly pushed a group of 35 irregular migrants into the Republic of Lithuania and have entered the territory of Lithuania themselves. The officials of the ...

An illegal group of migrants accompanied possibly by a service car and its occupants was captured by the FRONTEX' helicopter participating in the operation in Šalčininkai district.

Yesterday Agnė Bilotaitė, head of emergency state operations, adopted a decision instructing all institutions ensuring the protection of the state border of the Republic of Lithuania to additionally take all necessary statutory measures to protect the state border of the Republic of Lithuania and measures not creating preconditions for illegal entry into ...

Today, the Government has decided to resume the state of national emergency for the threat of the spread of the coronavirus infection (COVID-19), with effect from 1 July 2021.