Over the past 24 hours, 116 migrants tried to cross the border between Belarus and Poland illegally, the Polish Border Guard reports .
This number of illegal migrants in one day is the largest since the beginning of the year.
Most migrants (40) tried to cross the border at the Kuznica border checkpoint. At the Narevka border checkpoint, border guards detained a Georgian citizen who did not stop for control after a chase and a warning shot.
In 2021, 39.7 thousand people tried to cross the Polish-Belarusian border illegally. man. About 2,000 attempts have been recorded since the beginning of this year.
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Crisis on the borders of Belarus and EU countries
In June 2021, the unrecognized President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated that his country would not interfere with the transit of illegal migrants and drugs to Europe. He responded to EU sanctions against him and his entourage over seizing power in 2020, suppressing protests and terrorizing the unpopular.
On July 9, Lithuania began building a 30-kilometer wire wall on the border with Belarus to curb the flow of illegal immigrants.
In November, due to the influx of hundreds of migrants, the crisis began on the Belarusian-Polish border , as a result of which Poland in January 2022 also began to build a fence on the border with Belarus.
Meanwhile, Lukashenko has threatened neighboring countries with “Russian interference” if they push back illegal immigrants. How Poland opposes the “migration war” unleashed by the dictator of Belarus, read in Alexander Shevchenko 's article “Lukashenko against Europe: a bloody game of endurance . “
