Baltics tighten border control

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have begun their eastern borders by erecting fencing and carrying out identity checks.

Latvia and Estonia have begun to turn off their borders with Russia fences. Safety considerations also play partly because of Russian interference in Ukraine and the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea, as well as the kidnapping of an Estonian security officer in 2014.

Lithuania began guards, police and army this week an exercise to tackle a border crisis. Reintroduce passport checks at the border with Latvia is there also a part of.

,, Until last year had Norway and Finland all immigration problems on the border with Russia. Then jump the migrant flow like magic within a week up, '' said the commander of the Lithuanian Border Guard Renatas Pozela.