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For months now, Belarus has been orchestrating a flow of migrants. mainly from Iraq and Africa across its border into the three European Union (EU) nations of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. These three nations form the eastern flank of both the EU. These three nations have accused Belarus of deliberately triggering this border migrant crisis.…
Lithuania has built the first stretches of a steel wall on its border with Belarus since migrants from the Middle East and other areas began entering from Belarus this year.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Belarusian soldiers threatened to open fire on Polish troops just across the border, the Polish Defence Ministry said on Thursday, in what it said was an attempt to escalate a crisis over migrants at their common frontier. Warsaw and the European Union accuse Belarus of deliberately encouraging illegal migrants to enter Poland and other EU states via Belarusian territory as a means to put pressure on the bloc. Belarus has repeatedly denied this. Poland has declared a state of emergency in the border region. It has put up a barbed wire fence on the border and plans to build a wall. Yesterday. Polish soldiers located a group of around 250 migrants near the fence, the Polish Defence Ministry said on Twitter. The Belarusian soldiers guarding them, threatened to open fire at our soldiers. The Polish soldiers did not allow themselves to be provoked and as a result the situation did not escalate further, the ministry added. The Belarusian foreign ministry did not immediatel
Belarusian soldiers guarding a group of migrants at the border with Poland on Wednesday threatened Polish soldiers that they were going to open fire, the Polish Defence Ministry reported on Thursday.