It is the Polish government that has shared the video which also shows that the migrants are throwing objects at the security guards on the Polish side.
Thousands of migrants and refugees are stranded behind barbed wire fences on the border with Poland. Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of sending migrants there in response to EU sanctions against the country.
The Polish Ministry of Defense confirmed on Twitter this morning that Polish forces in the eastern village of Kuznica also fired tear gas at stone-throwing migrants.
– The migrants attacked our soldiers with stones and tried to destroy the border fence to get to Poland. We use tear gas to curb aggression, the Polish defense writes on Twitter.
Water cannons flush at migrants from the Polish to Belarusian side of the border. 15,000 Polish soldiers are in place to ensure that migrants do not cross the border.
Foto: Polish Defence Ministry / Reuters
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– Listen, listen, if you do not follow orders, coercion will be used against you, it is shouted from speakers on the Polish side directed at the migrants.
Will return migrants
On Monday, Lukashenko said he was in dialogue with the migrants to get them to return. And that Belarus can also fly migrants directly to Germany.
Mr Lukashenko also made it clear that Belarus does not want the border crisis to lead to a conflict with Poland, according to the AFP news agency.
– We do not want a conflict on the border. This is totally harmful to us, Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko told Belarusian television on Monday morning, according to AFP.
On Monday, EU foreign ministers adopted new sanctions against Belarus, including the country’s state-owned airline Belavia.
The sanctions package is the fifth EU to introduce since the controversial election in Belarus in August 2020.
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