{"id":121494,"date":"2025-01-13T11:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/121494\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"latvia-reports-first-illegal-border-crossings-via-belarus-this-year","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/121494\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia reports first illegal border crossings via Belarus this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

January 13, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Latvia reported 15 illegal border crossings via Belarus yesterday after about a month with no documented attempts, according to Pozirk<\/em>‘s analysis of the Latvian border guards’ data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lithuania thwarted 12 illegal border crossings yesterday, while Poland reported about 20 attempts from January 10 to 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2025, the European Union thwarted more than 100 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus. Attempts doubled compared to a similar period last January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the EU thwarted at least 36,291 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus after foiling 42,078 attempts in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border has been ongoing since 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.<\/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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