{"id":117331,"date":"2024-12-09T13:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T10:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/117331\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"illegal-belarus-eu-crossings-down-31-percent-in-early-december","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/117331\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Belarus-EU crossings down 29 percent in early December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 9,<em> Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>The European Union (EU) did not allow at least 325 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus between December 1 and 8, according to <em>Pozirk<\/em>&#8216;s analysis of border guards&#8217; data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illegal migration flows fell 29 percent compared to the same period in November but grew 63 percent year on year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland remained the major target for third-country foreigners who want to cross illegally into the EU with 285 illegal crossings, a number comparable to the November level, yet Latvia and Lithuania posted a decrease in migration flows of 72 and 98 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of 2024, the EU stopped at least 35,860 illegal border crossings at its shared border with Belarus, including 29,589 attempts via Poland; 5,313 via Latvia; 958 via Lithuania. Illegal migration fell about 14 percent year on year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p>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<p>Belarus\u2019 western neighbors call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/litva-granica-udf.by_-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/litva-granica-udf.by_-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/litva-granica-udf.by_-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/litva-granica-udf.by_-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/litva-granica-udf.by_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/litva-granica-udf.by_.jpg 1127w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> \u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">\u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430, Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Lithuania\u2019s new interior minister to stick to pushback policy<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">December 6, Pozirk. Lithuania&#039;s new interior minister, Vladislav Kondratovi\u010d, said he will continue to upgrade the border infrastructure and stick to the pushback policy to counter illegal migration. The minister-designate told a meeting of the Homeland Union\u2013Lithuanian Christian Democrats parliamentary &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/117097\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 9, Pozirk. The European Union (EU) did not allow at least 325 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus between December 1 and 8, according to Pozirk&#8216;s analysis of border guards&#8217; data. Illegal migration flows fell 29 percent compared to the same period in November but grew 63 percent year on year. 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