Indeed, this evening, Thursday, a plane carrying migrants took off from Minsk Airport in Belarus towards Iraq, but it was not known how many passengers were on board.
It is expected to stop at two stations, the first in the city of Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and the other in the capital, Baghdad, according to the Associated Press..
430 Iraqis have registered their requests to return home, and most of them are already at the airport, according to the Iraqi consul in Russia, Majid Al-Kilani..
Since November 8, a large group of people, mostly from the Middle East, have been stranded in Belarus at a border crossing with Poland, with troops from the two countries pitting against each other..
Most of those stranded have fled conflict or desperation at home, aiming to reach Germany or other Western European countries.
The West has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of pushing migrants to the border to use them as pawns to destabilize the 27-nation bloc, in retaliation for the sanctions imposed on his regime after it cracked down on dissent..
Belarus denies orchestrating the crisis, which has seen migrants enter the country since the summer, then try to cross into Poland, Lithuania and Latvia..
Reports stated that about two thousand people camped in the cold on the border, some of them with children, and at least 11 deaths were reported in recent weeks, in light of the low temperatures..
Poland did not allow them to enter, and Belarus did not want them to return to the capital, Minsk, or to settle in the country.
On Tuesday evening, the Belarusian authorities offered to take these people to a nearby warehouse, where they would be provided with a warm space to stay, mattresses, water and hot meals..
About 1,000 migrants have been staying in the warehouse since Wednesday, while another 800 are still in the makeshift camp at the border, according to the Belarus Red Cross..
It is not clear whether there are other migrants elsewhere in Belarus.
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