{"id":167729,"date":"2025-12-11T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167729\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"poland-lithuania-report-undocumented-migration-attempts-after-a-quiet-spell","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167729\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland, Lithuania report undocumented migration attempts after a quiet spell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 11,\u00a0<em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Poland and Lithuania each reported an attempt by undocumented migrants to cross in from Belarus outside official border checkpoints on December 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to these incidents, Lithuania had gone 11 days without reporting any such attempts since November 29, while Poland had seen no irregular crossings for eight days since December 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of December, the neighboring European Union countries thwarted 51 irregular crossings, with 46 blocked by Latvia, four by Poland and one by Lithuania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus\u2019 western neighbors have reported 42,334 irregular entries since the start of 2025, 17.9 percent more than in the same period in 2024. Poland remained the primary target of irregular migration with 28,839 attempts this year, followed by Latvia with 11,887 attempts and Lithuania with 1,608 attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of people desperate to cross into 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>Latvia, Lithuania and Poland call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 11,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0Poland and Lithuania each reported an attempt by undocumented migrants to cross in from Belarus outside official border checkpoints on December 10. Prior to these incidents, Lithuania had gone 11 days without reporting any such attempts since November 29, while Poland had seen no irregular crossings for eight days since December 2. 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