{"id":211131,"date":"2026-11-09T22:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/211131\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:10:58","slug":"latvia-reports-its-second-day-without-irregular-entry-attempts-from-belarus-in-33-weeks","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/211131\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia reports its second day without irregular entry attempts from Belarus in 33 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

November 9, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Latvia has not recorded no irregular crossing attempts from Belarus for the second time in the last 229 days, with no such incidents reported on November 8, according to Pozirk\u2019s<\/em> analysis of border guards\u2019 data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undocumented third-country foreigners attempted crossing the Latvian border for 221 consecutive days between March 25 and October 31, took a break on November 1 and returned to \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d on November 2 with daily crossing attempts through November 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poland has reported no attempts at unauthorized entry from Belarus for 19 days in a row, while Lithuania has seen 53 such incidents since November 5, when 38 crossing attempts were thwarted, the largest number since early August. No attempts at irregular entry were recorded on November 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neighboring European Union countries have prevented 15,188 attempts by undocumented third-country foreigners to enter their territory from Belarus since the start of 2026, including 240 in November, according to Pozirk\u2019s<\/em> analysis of border guards\u2019 data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvia has accounted for 84.3 percent of all irregular entry attempts from Belarus this year, followed by Lithuania with 12.6 percent and Poland with 3.2 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, Lithuania has recorded a surge in \u201csecondary migration\u201d from Belarus, with undocumented foreigners crossing into Latvia and then trying to get into Western Europe through Lithuania and Poland. The Latvian State Border Guard Services has recorded 2,139 such cases since January, up from 1,288 in all of last 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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