{"id":105951,"date":"2024-09-21T17:28:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/105951\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"illegal-belarus-latvia-border-crossings-hit-record-high-since-july","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/105951\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Belarus-Latvia border crossings hit record high since July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

September 21, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Latvia has not allowed at least 74 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus over the past day, according to border guards’ data analyzed by Pozirk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riga reported a comparable number of attempts, 81, on July 18 and 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Union thwarted 2,446 illegal border crossings via Belarus this month, twice as many as in the same period in August. Poland stopped 2,026 illegal migrants; Latvia, 263; and Lithuania, 157.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2024, the EU thwarted at least 30,822 illegal border crossings at its shared border with Belarus, with 25,844 attempts via Poland alone, 4,355 via Latvia and 623 via Lithuania. Illegal border crossings exceeded 100 daily attempts from September 15 to 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border started in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent migrants from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU. It escalated in November 2021, with hundreds of migrants storming the Polish border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2021, the Belarusian government announced the suspension of a readmission agreement with the EU in response to sanctions that followed the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus\u2019 western neighbors call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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