Estonia sends PPA unit to Latvia’s border with Belarus

On Monday, July 29, Estonia sent an ESTPOL9 border guard team to help Latvia prevent illegal migrants from crossing into the European Union.

ERR reported on this.

Such attempts have recently become more frequent on the Latvian-Belarusian border.

In the first three weeks of July, Latvian border guards have stopped 730 attempts to enter the country from Belarus.

Therefore, in order to cope with the growing pressure, Latvian border guards turned to their Estonian counterparts for help last week.

And on Monday, the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board sent a team of 11 people to start patrolling the Latvian-Belarusian border tomorrow.

Their main purpose is to patrol the border area and the team includes a dog handler with a dog and drone operators. In addition, the team has the ability to patrol the border using drones.

The team will work in Latvia for two weeks, after which they will be replaced by the next group.

The PPA officers will be working around Kaplava and Robežniek, where there has been a recent rise in crossings.

The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board also noted that they were ready to provide assistance to their southern neighbors for a longer period of time if necessary, but the decision would be made jointly with the Latvian Border Guard.

Previously, Estonia had already sent its military and drones to the Polish-Belarusian border to respond to the hybrid aggression of the Lukashenko regime.

Estonia has also sent its border guards to Slovenia to help effectively protect the borders in the face of the migration crisis.