EU accuses Belarus of ‘trafficking’ migrants toward border
3 years, 1 month ago

EU accuses Belarus of ‘trafficking’ migrants toward border

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — European Union officials on Wednesday accused Belarus of state- As the crisis showed no sign of easing, an EU leader also said the bloc was, for the first time, considering the idea of funding the construction of a wall or some other barrier on its eastern border. Germany’s interior minister, Horst Seehofer, also accused Lukashenko of “using people’s fates — with the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin — to destabilize the West.” Merkel spoke by phone with Putin on Wednesday. Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins added that “it is what I would call a state- The Kremlin’s account of the call with Merkel said Putin proposed a discussion between “representatives of EU member states and Minsk.” It also said Putin and Merkel “agreed to continue the conversation.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected suggestions by Morawiecki that Moscow has any responsibility in the crisis, calling them “absolutely irresponsible and unacceptable.” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also has suggested the EU give Belarus financial aid to stop the migrant flow. Kuleba said Belarus “is a potential front line that should not be underestimated.” European Council President Charles Michel met in Warsaw with Morawiecki in a gesture of solidarity, saying: “We are facing a hybrid, brutal, violent and unworthy attack, and we can only reply to this with firmness and unity, in accordance with our core values.” Michel also said the EU is discussing the possibility of funding “physical infrastructure” on its external borders. Merkel’s spokesman Seibert, while blaming the “condemnable behavior of the Belarusian leader,” also said the migrants deserved legal protection and humanitarian assistance — an apparent message to Poland.

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EU says asylum rights can be suspended for migrants ‘weaponized’ by Russia and Belarus
1 week, 6 days ago

EU says asylum rights can be suspended for migrants ‘weaponized’ by Russia and Belarus

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday gave a greenlight to Poland and other countries on Europe’s eastern flank to temporarily suspend asylum rights when they believe that Belarus and Russia are “weaponizing” migrants to destabilize the bloc. The EU’s executive branch also accuses Russian authorities of “facilitating these movements, given that more than 90% of migrants illegally crossing the …

Why is Belarus amassing troops along its border with Ukraine?
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Why is Belarus amassing troops along its border with Ukraine?

Al Jazeera  

Ukraine has called on Belarus to pull back its forces from the border amid new regional tensions after Kursk incursion in Russia. Ukraine has asked Belarus to pull back forces that it has sent to their border amid rising military tensions between the neighbours following the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Late on Sunday, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

Belarus sends more troops and aircraft to its border with Ukraine
4 months ago

Belarus sends more troops and aircraft to its border with Ukraine

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus has deployed aircraft and air defense troops to its border with Ukraine, a day after President Alexander Lukashenko announced he would station almost a third of the country’s military along the frontier. The Belarusian military also deployed anti-aircraft missiles and soldiers from the country’s radio-technical corps, Maj. Gen. Andrey Lukyanovich, commander of the Belarusian Air Defense …

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland on Thursday reintroduced restrictions on movement along parts of the border with Belarus because of increased migration pressure that has involved violence against Polish security officials. The ban taking effect Thursday will be valid for 90 days and affects 60 kilometers of the land border between NATO member Poland and Belarus, an autocratic state aligned with …

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure

The Independent  

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Poland honors soldier who was fatally stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland honors soldier who was fatally stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus

The Independent  

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Poland honors soldier who was fatally stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland honors soldier who was fatally stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Sirens wailed and lawmakers in the Polish parliament observed a minute of silence on Wednesday to honor a young soldier who was fatally stabbed at the Polish-Belarusian border during a migration crisis that Poland says has been engineered by Russia and Belarus. In Warsaw, the speaker of parliament, Szymon Holownia, asked lawmakers to “honor the sacrifice of …

Polish soldier stabbed at the Belarus border dies of his injuries as pressure from migrants rises
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Polish soldier stabbed at the Belarus border dies of his injuries as pressure from migrants rises

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish soldier who was stabbed last month at the eastern border with Belarus has died, Poland’s military said Thursday. “A young soldier, Mateusz, gave his life in the defense of Poland’s border,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on the social platform X. The Polish foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the Belarusian charge d’affaires, demanding that Minsk …

Why Poland says Russia and Belarus are weaponizing migration to benefit Europe’s far-right
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Poland says Russia and Belarus are weaponizing migration to benefit Europe’s far-right

Associated Press  

POLAND-BELARUS BORDER, Poland — A Somali woman pushes her bandaged hand between two vertical bars of a thick metal barrier separating Belarus from Poland as she and four other women gaze toward the European Union. Poland and the EU say migrants — who have trekked to former Soviet countries from as far away as the Middle East and Africa — …

Poland’s leader says the border with Belarus will be further fortified after a soldier is stabbed
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Poland’s leader says the border with Belarus will be further fortified after a soldier is stabbed

Associated Press  

DUBICZE CERKIEWNE, Poland — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that its forces would further fortify the border with Belarus and can use “all available means” to defend the NATO nation’s frontier, after a soldier was seriously wounded with a knife by a migrant. Tusk said that a buffer zone some 200 meters wide would be set up along …

Poland rolls out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Poland rolls out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus

The Independent  

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Poland rolls out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Poland rolls out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Defense officials in NATO member Poland on Monday presented a plan to strengthen anti-drone surveillance and on-ground military defense through a system of fortifications and barriers along about 700 kilometers of its eastern border with Russia and Russian ally Belarus. The government says Poland, which supports neighboring Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s aggression, is being targeted …

Belarus targets opposition activists with raids and property seizures
7 months, 1 week ago

Belarus targets opposition activists with raids and property seizures

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Authorities in Belarus on Thursday announced raids and the seizure of property belonging to 104 opposition activists who have fled the country, the latest step in a crackdown on dissent that has continued unabated for nearly four years. Belarus’ Investigative Committee said Thursday the latest raids and seizures targeted activists who criticized Belarusian authorities abroad and rallied …

Poland’s prime minister vows to strengthen security at EU border with Belarus
7 months, 1 week ago

Poland’s prime minister vows to strengthen security at EU border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Saturday traveled to the country’s border with Belarus, which is also the European Union’s external border with the autocratic state, and pledged to do more to strengthen security along its entire eastern frontier. “I know that there are more and more illegal crossings every day,” Tusk told reporters at the border, …

Lithuania to close 2 more checkpoints with Russian ally Belarus as tensions along border rise
10 months ago

Lithuania to close 2 more checkpoints with Russian ally Belarus as tensions along border rise

LA Times  

Lithuanian soldiers patrol a road near the Lithuania-Belarus border near the village of Jaskonys, about 100 miles south of the capital, Vilnius, on Nov. 13, 2021. Lithuania decided Wednesday to seal off another two of its six checkpoints with Belarus as of next month, amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia. Wednesday’s decision was fueled “by …

Germany increases border patrols along migrant ‘smuggling routes’ to Poland and Czech Republic
1 year, 2 months ago

Germany increases border patrols along migrant ‘smuggling routes’ to Poland and Czech Republic

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Germany announced Wednesday it will increase police patrols along “smuggling routes” on the border with Poland and the Czech Republic in an effort to prevent more migrants from entering the country. “To ensure that this succeeds quickly, I have decided that customs will support this urgent task with 500 staff.” Faeser said the new border controls would take …

Lithuania to temporarily close two checkpoints with Belarus amid tensions on border
1 year, 4 months ago

Lithuania to temporarily close two checkpoints with Belarus amid tensions on border

The Independent  

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Latvia sends soldiers to boost security on border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Latvia sends soldiers to boost security on border with Belarus

Al Jazeera  

Latvia says country is facing increased ‘hybrid threats’ and blames Belarusian authorities of involvement in encouraging people to cross border. Latvia’s defence minister has ordered the army to help guard the country’s border with Belarus amid what was described as “hybrid threats” facing the country and as a reported 96 attempts were made by people to cross the border in …

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland is deploying thousands of troops to its border with Belarus, calling it a deterrent move as tensions between the two neighbors ratchet up. Those tensions between Poland — a NATO and European Union country — and Belarus, which is Russia’s ally in its war on Ukraine, have been building up in recent months on the border. …

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus

The Independent  

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Polish minister says reinforcement at the border with Belarus is due to hostile rhetoric and actions
1 year, 4 months ago

Polish minister says reinforcement at the border with Belarus is due to hostile rhetoric and actions

Associated Press  

JARYLOWKA, Poland — Poland’s defense minister said Saturday that the country has increased the number of troops protecting its border with Belarus as a deterrent amid “destabilizing” actions by its pro-Russian neighbor. Also a pro-government group in Belarus recently alleged that Poland’s politicians, who support Ukraine in its war against Russia’s aggression, were “igniting the fire of war with their …

As tensions mount, Poland plans to deploy troops to its border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

As tensions mount, Poland plans to deploy troops to its border with Belarus

NPR  

As tensions mount, Poland plans to deploy troops to its border with Belarus Poland is planning to send ten thousand troops to its border with Belarus to counter what the government sees as a security threat from Russia's ally, and host to Wagner militia fighters. SCHMITZ: And, Sarah, he's saying here that this troop buildup is meant to scare away …

Poland plans to deploy 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland plans to deploy 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland intends to put 10,000 soldiers along its border with Belarus, the country’s defense minister said Thursday as Warsaw worries about the presence of Russian-linked mercenaries in Belarus and migrants trying to cross the border without authorization. Separately, the Polish military said it was searching an area near the border with Belarus for a lost fuse from …

Poland to move 10,000 troops to border near Belarus as Wagner threat grows
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland to move 10,000 troops to border near Belarus as Wagner threat grows

India TV News  

The Polish Defense Minister on Thursday said that the government is planning to deploy at least 10,000 troops along its border with neighbouring Belarus to prepare for a possible altercation with Wagner mercenary forces and migants trying to illegally cross the border. Additional 2,000 troops would be sent to the border over the next two weeks to double Poland's military …

Poland to send up to 10,000 soldiers to border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland to send up to 10,000 soldiers to border with Belarus

Al Jazeera  

Poland has expressed concerns about the border area since hundreds of Russia’s Wagner mercenaries arrived in Belarus last month. Poland is planning to move up to 10,000 additional troops to the border with Belarus to support the border guard force, according to Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. Poland has worried increasingly about the border area since hundreds of battle-hardened Wagner mercenaries …

Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government announced Wednesday that it is planning to deploy an additional 2,000 troops to its border with Belarus, twice the number the Border Guard agency had requested, as fears of illegal migration rise. In an interview with state news agency PAP, a deputy interior minister, Maciej Wasik announced the decision and accused the Belarusian authorities …

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO's eastern flank
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO's eastern flank

The Independent  

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Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO’s eastern flank
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO’s eastern flank

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Polish and Lithuanian leaders held an urgent meeting Thursday in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, warning that they are bracing for provocations from Moscow and Minsk in the area. Both nations on NATO’s eastern flank have increased their border security following the arrival of thousands of …

Wagner mercenaries in Belarus move closer to the Polish border, Poland’s prime minister says
1 year, 4 months ago

Wagner mercenaries in Belarus move closer to the Polish border, Poland’s prime minister says

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday. Mateusz Morawiecki said at a news conference that the mercenaries had moved close to the Suwalki Gap, a strategic stretch of Polish territory situated between Belarus and Kaliningrad, a Russian territory separated …

Poland’s ruling party leader vows to protect the EU border with Russia’s ally Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland’s ruling party leader vows to protect the EU border with Russia’s ally Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — The European Union’s border with Russian ally Belarus has become more dangerous because of Russia’s military presence there, and securing the frontier is the Polish government’s top priority, Poland’s ruling party leader said Thursday. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a deputy prime minister and head of the conservative Law and Justice party, made the comments while visiting the village of …

Poland, Lithuania fear new migrant crisis due to Belarus’ offer of visa-free travel
1 year, 6 months ago

Poland, Lithuania fear new migrant crisis due to Belarus’ offer of visa-free travel

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus is introducing a visa-free travel arrangement with dozens of countries for a month, raising fears that neighboring Poland and Lithuania might see a sudden increase in unauthorized migration. The authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, signed a decree allowing citizens of 73 countries — including ones in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America — to …

Migrants with children stuck at Poland’s border wall; activists say Belarus won’t let them turn back
1 year, 6 months ago

Migrants with children stuck at Poland’s border wall; activists say Belarus won’t let them turn back

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — A group of some 30 migrants seeking asylum, including small children, has been stuck at Poland’s border wall with Belarus for three days, Polish human rights activists said Sunday. Although the migrants were outside Poland’s border wall, activists from Grupa Granica said they were on Polish territory and Belarus was not allowing them to turn back. A …

Lithuania seeks compensation from Belarus for migrant crisis
1 year, 8 months ago

Lithuania seeks compensation from Belarus for migrant crisis

Associated Press  

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania is seeking up to 120 million euros in compensation from Belarus, accusing its eastern neighbor of orchestrating the immigration of thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East. Since 2021, when the European Union imposed sanctions on Belarus and its longtime authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, the number of people seeking to cross into Lithuania …

Belarus claims Ukraine army groups have massed at border, risking its security
1 year, 10 months ago

Belarus claims Ukraine army groups have massed at border, risking its security

ABC  

Belarus has claimed there was a significant grouping of Ukrainian troops massed near its border and warned that this posed a threat to its security. Key points: President Lukashenko allowed Russia to launch part of its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine from Belarus Belarus's professional army has about 48,000 troops and some 12,000 state border troops The new territorial defence …

Latvia calls watchdog’s migrant mistreatment claims ‘absurd’
2 years, 2 months ago

Latvia calls watchdog’s migrant mistreatment claims ‘absurd’

The Hindu  

Latvia on October 13 rejected as “absurd" claims by Amnesty International that it is violently mistreating migrants attempting to enter the European Union member country through Belarus. The human rights watchdog said in a report released on Thursday that Latvian authorities have violently pushed back refugees and migrants — mostly from Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East — from …

Poland sees rise of African migrants coming through Russia
2 years, 4 months ago

Poland sees rise of African migrants coming through Russia

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials on Thursday reported a change in migration patterns across the country’s border with Belarus, with Africans who first traveled to Russia making up most of those seeking to enter Poland illegally by that route instead of people from the Mideast. The government said the African migrants include individuals passing through Russia, a close ally and …

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out
2 years, 5 months ago

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union from Belarus to Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and top security officials visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall. “The first sign of the war in Ukraine was Alexander Lukashenko’s attack on the Polish border with Belarus,” Morawiecki …

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out
2 years, 5 months ago

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out

The Independent  

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Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep asylum seekers out
2 years, 5 months ago

Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep asylum seekers out

Al Jazeera  

Poland continues to welcome millions of Ukrainians, while pushing back asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa. Poland has completed building a new steel wall at its border with Belarus to curb the flow of undocumented asylum seekers. Belarus had never before been a key migration route into the EU – until its President Alexander Lukashenko began encouraging would-be …

Poland to end state of emergency along border with Belarus
2 years, 6 months ago

Poland to end state of emergency along border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s government announced Thursday that it will lift a state of emergency on July 1 along its border with Belarus as it completes the construction of a wall aimed at stopping migrants and refugees. Poland began building the wall and restricted the rights of most people to enter the border area after large number of migrants, most …

Poland-Belarus border: The people pushed back in a Polish forest
2 years, 6 months ago

Poland-Belarus border: The people pushed back in a Polish forest

Al Jazeera  

Listen to this story: Białystok, Poland – Mahir* and Hasan* wove their way through a forest in eastern Poland. The pair were able to cross into Poland and avoid Polish border guards, who have been accused of “pushbacks” of non-European refugees and migrants entering their country via the “red zone” – a 3km-wide strip running along the roughly 400km border …

Non-white refugees fleeing Ukraine detained in EU immigration facilities
2 years, 9 months ago

Non-white refugees fleeing Ukraine detained in EU immigration facilities

The Independent  

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Fears women and children fleeing Ukraine could end up in the hands of human traffickers
2 years, 9 months ago

Fears women and children fleeing Ukraine could end up in the hands of human traffickers

ABC  

As millions of women and children flee across Ukraine's borders in the face of Russian aggression, concerns are growing over how to protect the most vulnerable refugees from becoming victims of human traffickers or other forms of exploitation. Key points: A man in Poland has reportedly been charged with raping a 19-year-old Ukrainian refugee Berlin Police have warned women and …

Poland begins work on $400m Belarus border wall against refugees
2 years, 10 months ago

Poland begins work on $400m Belarus border wall against refugees

Al Jazeera  

Polish contractors have begun work on a new 353 million euro wall along the Belarus border aimed at deterring refugee crossings following a crisis in the area last year. Thousands of refugees and migrants – mostly from the Middle East – crossed or attempted to cross the border from Belarus into Poland last year. It also built a razor-wire fence …

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland rapped over Belarus border methods
2 years, 11 months ago

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland rapped over Belarus border methods

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — Latvia, Lithuania and Poland continue to use questionable methods to keep out migrants trying to enter from Belarus and are denying access to aid groups trying to help people stuck in border areas, senior U.N. refugee agency and European Union officials said Thursday. She did say that border tensions have “de-escalated significantly,” and that the EU has helped …

Migrants camped in Belarus warehouse still hope to reach Europe
3 years ago

Migrants camped in Belarus warehouse still hope to reach Europe

The Independent  

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‘Go through,’ Lukashenko tells migrants at Belarus-Poland border
3 years ago

‘Go through,’ Lukashenko tells migrants at Belarus-Poland border

The Independent  

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What next for the refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland?
3 years, 1 month ago

What next for the refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland?

Al Jazeera  

Even if Belarus and the EU reach a deal, analysts say refugees may be long left in limbo at the border or in detention centres. Although Dennison said Belarus’ approach was unlikely to work, he predicted the EU and Minsk may eventually agree on “some face-saving measure” that involve people being returned to their countries of origin, “possibly paid for …

A new humanitarian crisis unfolds at the Polish-Belarusian border
3 years, 1 month ago

A new humanitarian crisis unfolds at the Polish-Belarusian border

Al Jazeera  

For weeks, a large group of people, mostly from the Middle East, has been stranded in Belarus at a border crossing with Poland, trapped as forces from the two countries face off against each other. The West has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of luring the refugees and migrants to the border to use them as pawns to destabilise the …

Lukashenko warns against flare-up with Poland over border crisis
3 years, 1 month ago

Lukashenko warns against flare-up with Poland over border crisis

Al Jazeera  

Belarusian president calls for European powers to work with Minsk but Berlin rejects proposal to take in 2,000 people. President Alexander Lukashenko has said Belarus seeks no confrontation with Poland but wants European powers to work with Minsk to resolve the migration crisis along his country’s border with Poland, adding that if the crisis deteriorated “too far, war is unavoidable”. …

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