Poland To Build 6 Watchtowers At Russia's Kaliningrad Border

Getting ready: The CCTV towers will will monitor the border between Poland and Kaliningrad, where Moscow recently announced they are set to place state-of-the-art Iskander missiles

Daily Mail: Poland to build WATCHTOWERS along border with Russian exclave of Kaliningrad amid heightened tensions with Moscow

* CCTV towers will monitor the border between Poland and Kaliningrad
* Towers will range from 115ft to 164ft and cost £2.5million to build
* Moscow has announced they are set to place missiles in the exclave
* Both NATO and Russia are carrying out military exercises in the Baltic

Poland is set to build watchtowers along the border to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, a local news agency reports.

The towers, costing the Polish government £2.5million, will range from 115ft to 164ft and help monitor the 124mile long border between the two countries using CCTV.

The increased border monitoring comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and Poland, a member of both NATO and the European Union, over the conflict in Ukraine.

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