Event 26a0e7cc-f7ed-40e2-bc07-df1555ca4f36

Approved event from Hybrid War Tracker

Status: Approved Confidence: Low Category: Border Country: Poland Country: Belarus Attack Type: Weaponized Migrants

Source: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2371829/poland-face...

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Event Time

1y ago

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Created

1mo ago

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Updated

1mo ago

Summary

Headline: Poland faces renewed migration pressure at border with Belarus

Short Summary: Poland is facing renewed migration pressure at its border with Belarus, with officials recording thousands of irregular crossings and attributing the increase to orchestrated hybrid operations by Belarus and Russia.

Description

The Polish-Belarusian border has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks as Poland faces a renewed influx of migrants, with officials accusing Belarus (with alleged Russian backing) of pushing asylum seekers toward the border as part of a hybrid operation.

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The Polish-Belarusian border has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks, and the situation is becoming more serious, Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (PSL, EPP) said on Thursday.

The situation is serious. The pressure on the border has increased in recent weeks. After July and August, which were relatively calm months, September increased the number of illegal border crossings.

more than 2,500 irregular border crossings have been recorded so far in September and more than 26,000 in the last nine months, as many as in the whole of 2023.

It is Russia and Belarus behind this procedure, and […] the whole world calls it a hybrid war. We will not back down,

Related URLs

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2371829/poland-faces-renewed-migration-pressure-at-border-with-belarus

Source

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2371829/poland-faces-renewed-migration-pressure-at-border-with-belarus

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