{"id":181352,"date":"2026-03-27T22:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/181352\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:49:21","slug":"latvia-reports-record-number-of-attempts-at-irregular-border-crossing-from-belarus-over-four-months","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/181352\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia reports record number of attempts at irregular border crossing from Belarus over four months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>March 26, <em>Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Undocumented migrants made 168 attempts to cross from Belarus into Latvia in the first 26 days of March, the largest number in the last four months, according to <em>Pozirk\u2019s<\/em> analysis of data from the Latvian border control service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 167 such attempts in December 2025, none in January 2026 and 20 in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latvian border guards thwarted 32 attempts by undocumented third-country foreigners to enter its territory from Belarus on March 26, the largest number in the last 10 days. No irregular activity was detected at the border between March 23 and March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of people eager 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>March 26, Pozirk. Undocumented migrants made 168 attempts to cross from Belarus into Latvia in the first 26 days of March, the largest number in the last four months, according to Pozirk\u2019s analysis of data from the Latvian border control service. There were 167 such attempts in December 2025, none in January 2026 and 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-181352","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Latvia reports record number of attempts at irregular border crossing from Belarus over four months | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 26, Pozirk. 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