Hundreds of people are still trying to reach Poland from Belarus. The British Foreign Secretary called on Russia to intervene with his ally Alexander Lukashenko.
The EU is tightening sanctions against Belarus on Monday, but the situation on the Belarusian-Polish border also remains tense.
Belarus has been seeking people from the Middle East, mainly from the Middle East, since the summer. The situation at the Belarusian-Polish border has worsened in November.
On Saturday, a group of about 50 migrants broke through the fence on the Polish-Belarusian border in Starzyna in the early evening. Police in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, reported the matter. The Polish regional government is divided into 16 voivodships.
According to Polish police, there was another attempt to break through the fence on the border on Saturday. In addition, the Polish authorities were stoned.
According to the Polish Border Guard, a total of 223 unauthorized border crossings were registered at the border between the country and Belarus on Saturday. The pressure is particularly on the border with Poland, but the Lithuanian border authorities also said According to the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT 114 companies crossed the border on Saturday.
Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki urges military union NATO to take ‘concrete steps’ to resolve Belarusian border migration crisis on Sunday, Reuters reports
Morawiecki added that Poland, Lithuania and Latvia could request security consultations under the NATO treaties.
“It’s not enough for us to express our concerns in public. We now need concrete action and commitment from the entire military alliance, ”Morawiescki told the Polish state news agency PAP.
Under Article 4 of the NATO Treaty, any member of the military alliance may request consultations whenever its territorial integrity, political independence or security are threatened.
Polish deaths near the border have not been avoided. Polish police said on Saturday they found a young Syrian man dead in a forest near the Belarusian border. The cause of the man’s death was unknown on Saturday.
According to aid organizations, a total of 11 dead migrants have been found near the border since last summer.
A Polish Army soldier was also killed on Saturday night. It was a casualty that did not involve Belarusian soldiers or people seeking to enter Poland.
Polish authorities have accused Belarusian soldiers of throwing stones and sticks, laser blinding of Polish soldiers and distributing gas and metal cutters to people trying to cross the border into Poland.
According to the Belarusian opposition, more Belarusian troops were brought close to the Kuznica border station on Saturday. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko a news agency loyal to the administration Belta on Saturday, he presented pictures of children crying in the border area and told how Lukashenko had ordered humanitarian aid to be taken to Poland.
Data on people in the border area are contradictory. According to the news agency AFP, Belarus estimates the number of migrants at around 2,000, and Poland estimates at around 3,000 to 4,000. More arrive every day.
On Sunday EU External Action Service Josep Borrell said EU foreign ministers would tighten sanctions against the Lukashenko regime on Monday. According to Borrell, the sanctions will be imposed on airlines and travel agencies that are estimated to be involved in transporting migrants to and from Belarus at the EU’s borders.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas the messaging service on Twitter ruled out the possibility of imposing an airline ban on flights and landings on airlines carrying people under Lukashenko’s plan.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin assured on saturday, Russia has nothing to do with Belarus. Putin is Lukashenko’s main ally, and the Russian security authorities are known to have been involved in the systematic release of migrants and asylum seekers across the border as early as 2016. At that time, it was a question of the Finnish-Russian border. The arrival of people aspiring to Finland decreased only, when President Putin publicly ordered the Internal Security Agency (FSB) to intervene.
Controlling migrants across borders to undermine other states or federations is generally seen as a means of influencing hybridism.
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On Sunday, the British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss demanded that Putin intervene in the situation organized by his ally Lukashenko, according to AFP.
“Russia has a clear responsibility for this. It must put pressure on the Belarussian authorities to end the crisis and engage in dialogue, ”Truss wrote in the Telegraph on Sunday.
On Sunday day Russian state news agency Tass said Putin says he is ready to help resolve the border crisis. Putin said he learned of the events on the Belarus-Poland border originally from the media and has since discussed the matter with Lukashenko twice.
“When we hear accusations against ourselves, I want to tell everyone: take care of your own internal affairs, do not pass on matters that can be resolved by your own authorities to anyone. But we are ready to do our best to resolve this if anything depends on us, ”Tass quotes an interview Putin gave to Russia’s number one channel.
International journalists followed the situation in the Polish border town of Sokolka on Saturday 13 November.
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