{"id":210852,"date":"2026-11-06T21:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/210852\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T21:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:38:57","slug":"lithuania-reports-largest-number-of-irregular-border-crossings-per-day-since-july-31","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/210852\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania reports largest number of irregular border crossings per day since July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

November 6, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Lithuania prevented 38 undocumented migrants from entering the country from Belarus outside the official checkpoints on November 5, the country\u2019s State Border Guard Service reported. This is the record number of irregular migrants spotted by Lithuania since July 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Border guards prevented the entry of 28 undocumented migrants on November 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giedrius Mi\u0161utis, a spokesman for the State Border Guard Service, said that larger groups of migrants have been trying to sneak across the border as of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first five days of November, Lithuania thwarted a total of 66 attempts to cross the border from Belarus. Since the start of the year, it has reported 1,895 incidents, 14.8 percent more than during the whole year of 2025. Yet, Lithuania accounted for just 12.5 percent of all irregular crossing attempts from Belarus documented by its European Union neighbors this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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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