{"id":151853,"date":"2025-08-20T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/151853\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"polish-border-guards-attacked-amid-dozens-of-irregular-crossings-via-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/151853\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish border guards attacked amid dozens of irregular crossings via Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/graniza-polska-20250820.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/graniza-polska-20250820.jpg 729w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/graniza-polska-20250820-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/graniza-polska-20250820-178x118.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Polish Border Guard)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>August 20, <em>Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>A group of third-country foreigners trying to cross into Poland via Belarus this morning has attacked Polish border patrols with stones, the Polish Border Guard says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polish authorities thwarted over 60 irregular border crossings today, following 100 attempts reported yesterday. Several individuals from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Sudan who managed to scale the border fence were reportedly arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland has not allowed almost 3,000 foreigners to cross irregularly via Belarus this month, reporting 21,400 attempts since the start of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of people desperate to enter the European Union surged in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent asylum seekers from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later,&nbsp;\u0141uka\u0161enka claimed that foreigners were traveling to the EU because they were \u201cinvited there.\u201d<\/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\/04\/litva_unsplash-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/litva_unsplash-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/litva_unsplash-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/litva_unsplash-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/litva_unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/litva_unsplash.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Irregular Belarus-Lithuania crossings exceed 1,000 since January<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">August 18, Pozirk. Lithuania has not allowed at least 1,015 third-country foreigners to cross irregularly via Belarus since the start start of 2025 with the number of attempts exceeding that of the entire 2024, according to Pozirk\u2019s analysis of the &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/151602\">\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>August 20, Pozirk. A group of third-country foreigners trying to cross into Poland via Belarus this morning has attacked Polish border patrols with stones, the Polish Border Guard says. Polish authorities thwarted over 60 irregular border crossings today, following 100 attempts reported yesterday. 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