Migrants continue attempts to break into Poland / Article

Belarus’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has accused the EU of failing to deal with the crisis on the border. Meanwhile, Russian businessmen are complaining about truck queues on the Polish-Belarusian border.

Belarus is trying to provoke an incident

The Polish border guards have published a video showing a group of 150 migrants trying to cross the border. What is happening has been monitored by the Belarusian security forces. The migrants stoned the Polish security guards and tried to dazzle them with laser beams. Afterwards, the aggressive people tried to break the barbed wire fence on the border.

About 70 of them managed to enter Polish territory, but law enforcement officers pushed the border violators back to Belarus.

Photographs from Dubicze Cerkiewne. Yesterday 150 aggressive foreigners tried to break into the territory of Poland. The attack was supervised by Belarusians. Belarusian services, among others blinded our soldiers and officers with lasers. pic.twitter.com/NeQdkmNo7T

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November 22, 2021

Stanislav Zharin, a spokesman for the Polish special services, has announced that Belarusian security guards are bringing aggressive foreigners to the border, who are being helped to enter Polish territory illegally. He added that attempts by Belarus to provoke a “dangerous border incident” have been observed for several days in a row.

Merkel rejects Lukashenko’s offer

Belarus’s leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has said another flight could be arranged at the end of November to transport several hundred of the country’s citizens, who are currently on the Belarusian-Polish border.

Mr Lukashenko said German Chancellor Angela Merkel had promised to bring 2,000 migrants to Germany during a telephone conversation last week.

“I told them to collect migrants. Merkel promised me to look at this at European Union level. But they do not. She also has no promised contacts.

They will not contact us. We will deal with these people ourselves if Germany does not take them with us. We have nowhere to look. But we must ask the Germans to accept these people, because their relatives live there, “Lukashenko said.

Representatives of the German government claim that Merkel has rejected Lukashenko’s offer to transfer some of the citizens of the Middle East from Belarus to Germany.

The root of Belarus’s problems is Lukashenko

During his visit to Austria, the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Sviatlan Cihanouska, called on the European Union not to engage in dialogue with Lukashenko. She also commented on Merkel’s telephone conversations with Lukashenko.

“I understand why this was done – to provide humanitarian aid and to de-escalate the situation at the border. However, as a Belarusian, it seemed very strange to me, because for more than a year now we have been calling for a dialogue with the regime not to be recognized, not recognized and not legitimized. But we were told that these phone calls did not mean legitimizing the regime. It was said to help people at the border.

But I would like to remind you once again that people on the border do not have to die, just as political prisoners in Belarus do not have to die. We must always remember the root of the problem in Belarus, so as not to divert attention from the humanitarian and political crises in Belarus, “said Cihanouska.

“Only dialogue with the people of Belarus is the way to resolve this crisis. And when I say dialogue, we do not mean dialogue between the West and the Belarussian regime. There is no point in discussing anything with Lukashenko. He just can’t be trusted. He cannot be re-educated. Experience shows that only pressure works. ”

A line of trucks is formed

Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Linde has meanwhile visited Iraq to discuss the migration crisis. She condemned Lukashenko for using people for political purposes. The Latvian Foreign Ministry said today that the pressure on the Lukashenko regime must be stepped up in response to the hybrid attacks.

Russia’s Foreign Investment Advisory Council has asked the Russian government to resolve problems with supplies of goods from the EU to Russia, which are linked to tensions between Poland and Belarus.

A queue of 25-kilometer lorries has formed at one of the border checkpoints on the Polish-Belarusian border. This is causing significant losses to importers and could lead to higher prices for many basic necessities in Russia.

CONTEXT:

In the summer of 2021 the number of migrants increased significantly, which is trying to enter the territory of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland illegally from Belarus. Most migrants are arrived from Iraq.

Officials in the Baltic States and Poland pointed out that the Belarusian authorities deliberately do not obstruct the crossing of the borderto punish these countries for supporting the Belarusian opposition and sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.

The European Union will do so described as the deployment of hybrid warfare and promises to help strengthen the EU’s external border.

On November 8, a large group of migrants gathered at the Belarusian border with Poland, trying to enter the territory of the European Union, but Poland refuses to allow these people because they believe that they are not refugees, but “tourists” who have come to Belarus voluntarily.

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