{"id":153521,"date":"2025-09-02T15:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/153521\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"august-2-1-percent-short-of-record-number-of-irregular-border-crossings-from-belarus-to-eu","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/153521\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2.1 percent short of record number of irregular border crossings from Belarus to EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 2,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 European Union neighbors thwarted at least 6,685 irregular border crossings in August, according to border guards\u2019 data. That was just 2.1 percent fewer attempts than a record monthly number registered in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attempts more than doubled compared with numbers reported in August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland, with 5,340 incidents, accounted for 79.9 percent of the total number of attempts, according to&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>\u2018s analysis of border guards\u2019 data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attempts to cross into Latvia irregularly rose from 484 in August 2024 to 1,222 in August 2025. Lithuania reported an increase from 100 to 123 attempts. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus\u2019 western neighbors have thwarted at least 34,045 irregular crossings since January. That was a 20-percent increase from 28,376 in the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of people desperate to get to the EU 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>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Belarus\u2019 European Union neighbors thwarted at least 6,685 irregular border crossings in August, according to border guards\u2019 data. That was just 2.1 percent fewer attempts than a record monthly number registered in May. Attempts more than doubled compared with numbers reported in August 2024. 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