Weißrussland

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Die Situation spitzt sich aktuell weiter zu, nicht nur bedingt durch Kälte etc., sondern durch eine hohe Anzahl an neu hinzugekommenen Personen, die in der Nacht wohl an zwei Stellen die Grenze zu Polen durchbrochen haben...

Belarus migrants: Poland faces fresh border breaches

Poland faced "many attempts" to breach the border with Belarus overnight but now has 15,000 troops to repel them, the defence minister has said. Several thousand migrants have become stranded at the border, at the centre of an escalating international row.

For months, the EU, and now Nato and the US, have accused Belarus's authoritarian leader of provoking a renewed migrant crisis in Europe. [...] Alexander Lukashenko, who won a largely discredited election last year, denies luring would-be migrants - mostly from the Middle East - to the EU's borders in retaliation for sanctions imposed since he brutally cracked down on protesters and opponents. [...]

The European Commission says Mr Lukashenko enticed migrants with the false promise of easy entry to the EU as part of an "inhuman, gangster-style approach" and it has listed some 20 countries from which migrants have flown into Minsk, mainly on tourist visas.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday that the EU would not be blackmailed. He said the bloc would work to extend sanctions on Belarus: "We will sanction all those who participate in the targeted smuggling of migrants."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59231136

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