NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek European Union funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus.

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek EU funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonia said.

On Friday, September 28, the defense ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland met in the Latvian capital of Daugavpils. They discussed possible funding for the Baltic Defense Line from the EU budget,

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will ask the European Union to finance the construction of a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military depots along the borders with Russia and Belarus.

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland push for EU funding for the Baltic Defence Line, a fortified border project.

The three Baltic countries initially announced the plan for a “Baltic Defense Line” in January. In May, Poland announced a similar project called the “Eastern Shield” with a purpose to strengthen its borders with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus.

No mines, barbed wire, anti-tank weapons, or other such devices will be deployed in peacetime along the border fortifications.