50 soldiers from the Estonian Defense Forces are helping Poland this week. They will remain there until 1 January, helping Poles to repair a 40-kilometer stretch of the Polish-Belarusian border, as well as erecting barbed wire barriers.
Meanwhile, the four-and-a-half-month mission of the European Union’s border agency Frontex ends in Lithuania on Tuesday. Foreign experts arrived in Lithuania in the summer in response to the rapid increase in the number of illegal border crossers.
The mission is now complete, but the situation on the border remains fragile. Every day, Lithuania reports illegal attempts to enter the European Union by Belarus. On Monday, however, the number of these people was relatively small – border guards forced four migrants to return.
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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 from 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.
The Latvian government from August 11 declared a state of emergency on the border with Belarus, later on extended until 10 February. Latvia also plans to speed up Latvian-Belarusian border infrastructures construction.
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