{"id":168831,"date":"2025-12-18T21:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/168831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"irregular-belarus-latvia-crossings-hit-16-day-high","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/168831\/","title":{"rendered":"Irregular Belarus-Latvia crossings hit 16-day high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December 18, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Latvia did not allow 12 third-country foreigners to cross irregularly via Belarus yesterday, according to Pozirk<\/em>‘s analysis of border guards’ data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of December, the neighbouring European Union countries have thwarted 271 irregular crossings, including 191 via Poland, 74 via Latvia and six via Lithuania. The number of attempts has fallen by more than half year on year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus\u2019 western neighbors have reported 42,554 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 29,026 attempts this year, followed by Latvia with 11,915 attempts and Lithuania with 1,613 attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Latvia, Lithuania and Poland call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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