Warsaw accuses Belarusian officers of provocation with migrants

April 13, Pozirk. Belarusian officers have resorted to direct provocation and aggressive actions near the border recently, Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said on X.
According to the minister, 11,000 people are guarding the frontier.
The remarks come hours after the ministry’s spokesman, Jacek Dobrzyński, reported a new attempt to cross into the country.
“The border near Mielnik. Several dozen people are trying to break the fence in an attempt to illegally enter Poland. When a Border Guard patrol appears, the attackers start throwing stones at the approaching car. In the group of aggressors, the camera captures a Belarusian uniformed officer, who is also attacking our uniformed officers with stones,” he said on X.
Dobrzyński posted two short videos of the incident.
Earlier, Poland had introduced a no-go zone and restricted migrants’ right to apply for asylum at the border with Belarus.
European officials consider the migration crisis at the Belarus-EU border, which has been ongoing since the spring of 2021, a “hybrid attack” by the Minsk and Moscow regimes. In 2024, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland stopped over 36,000 attempts to sneak in from Belarusian territory.
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