Despite the challenges, the EU-co-funded eastern border automation project is moving forward

Cut cables, damaged cabinets, and natural elements fail to stop the construction of the eastern border: work moves forward.

Deliberately damaged cables, sabotaged distribution cabinets, and damage caused by recent storms — the construction of smart infrastructure along Latvia's eastern border is taking place under volatile and challenging conditions. The methods used by trespassers and state-backed regimes in neighboring countries are becoming increasingly aggressive and deliberate. To intentionally disrupt the deployment of technological infrastructure and delay the upcoming smart system, targeted damage has been recorded on CCTV poles, distribution cabinets, and cables, while severe storm damage has affected certain sections of the border. Despite these deliberate provocations supported by the aggressor state and trials posed by natural elements, the implementation of the ambitious project "Automated Border Surveillance Infrastructure" along the Latvian–Belarusian and Latvian–Russian borders continued strictly according to schedule during the third quarter.

The project is implemented by the State Border Guard in cooperation with the state joint-stock company "Latvian State Radio and Television Center" and the Provision State Agency under the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy, for which the Ministry of the Interior is the managing authority in Latvia.

The project is co-financed by the European Union.