"Helicopter flies, but the situation is calm," Belarus has started sending migrants to the Lithuanian border

The special state of emergency on the Lithuanian border means that border guards and police are stepping up surveillance of the movement of people at the Salchininkai border checkpoint, from where they can get to the Belarusian city of Lida. In the municipality of Šalčininkai, the border guard also reports that on Saturday, two cases of gunfire were heard on the Belarusian side of the border.

The small town of Šalčininkai is literally a few kilometers from the border with Belarus. There is also a sign “Pasienio ruožas”, which means “Border Zone”.

Vladislava, a resident of Šalčininkai, says about the migrant crisis: “Well, yes, an emergency. We are waiting for everything to calm down.” But no one knows how that will be resolved. “

“The helicopter is flying, so I’m looking at something. But I haven’t seen the migrants personally, I’m not going near the border. They say it’s coming. But it’s all normal, quiet, great,” notes Ivan, a resident of Šalčininkai.

“If [vairāk patruļu], everyone works, “observed Miroslava, a resident of Šalčininkai. I don’t know how it will be. There was already obviously some kind of political misbehavior there, nor was it negotiated. We need to make some concessions, find a common language and get out of this situation. “

The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service released a video on Saturday showing a group of about 70 migrants moving along the Belarusian side of the border.

Giedrjus Mišutis, a spokesman for the Lithuanian State Border Guard, told the program: the border of our country, just like that group of 70 people. “