{"id":168990,"date":"2025-12-19T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/168990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"latvia-lithuania-report-a-spike-in-undocumented-migration","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/168990\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia, Lithuania report a spike in undocumented migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December 19, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Latvia reported as many as 69 attempts by third-country foreigners to cross from Belarus outside its checkpoints yesterday. Lithuania recorded 17 attempts after quiet two weeks, while Poland did not detect any undocumented migrants at its border with Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of December, the neighboring European Union countries have thwarted 357 irregular crossings, including 191 via Poland, 143 via Latvia and 23 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 42,640 irregular entries since the start of 2025, 18.1 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 11,984 attempts and Lithuania with 1,630 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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