“Belarusian propagandists, constantly telling fictional stories about the violence of the Lithuanian border guards and the inhuman treatment of migrants, are cautiously silent about the fact that it is the Belarusian security forces who use brutal physical force. the Security Service reported.
It is noted that the migrants who stayed at the border between the two countries for several days refused to go to Lithuania, but wanted to return to Belarus and go home. Lithuanian border guards delivered food and water to them.
The Baltic states and Poland faced the problem of illegal migration from Belarus.
In Lithuania, they believe that Alexander Lukashenko, who calls himself the president of Belarus, deliberately weakened control over the border on his part. The Lithuanian Defense Ministry stated that Belarus instructs illegal immigrants at the border.
On July 13, the Lithuanian Seimas officially recognized the influx of migrants from Belarus as hybrid aggression… except Lithuania an emergency on the border with Belarus was declared in Latvia and Poland.
Due to the influx of migrants on the border with Belarus, the authorities decided to build a fence Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.
August 3rd Lithuania began to return illegal immigrants to Belarus.
The Presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland Gitanas Nauseda, Egils Levits, Kersti Kaljulaid and Andrzej Duda issued a joint declaration during their meeting in Kiev on 23 August. In a statement migration crisis on the border with Belarus they called it “a politically controlled hybrid operation carried out by the Lukashenka regime” in which “defenseless third-country nationals are exploited.” Its purpose is to “divert attention from the more frequent violations of human and civil rights by the regime“.
By data The State Border Committee of Belarus, the length of the border with Lithuania is 679 km.
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