{"id":116685,"date":"2024-12-04T15:21:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/116685\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"illegal-belarus-eu-crossings-exceed-1400-in-november","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/116685\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Belarus-EU crossings exceed 1,400 in November\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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December 4, <\/strong>Pozirk.<\/strong> <\/em>The European Union (EU) did not allow at least 1,403 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus in November, according to Pozirk<\/em>‘s analysis of border guards’ data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average daily number of illegal crossings amounted to 47 last month, following the yearly low of an average of 16 attempts in February with 458 crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illegal Belarus-Poland border crossings fell some 27 percent to 1,032 last month compared to October and 30 percent year on year. Poland remained the major target for third-country foreigners who want to cross illegally into the EU, accounting for 74 percent of all attempts via Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvia and Lithuania also reported significant decreases in the illegal migration flows via Belarus in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January-November, the EU stopped at least 35,535 illegal border crossings at its shared border with Belarus, including 29,304 attempts via Poland; 5,274 via Latvia; 957 via Lithuania. Illegal migration fell about 14 percent year on year.<\/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 suspended 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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