{"id":2902,"date":"2023-09-26T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=2902"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"lithuania-sends-more-border-guards-to-help-latvia-stop-migrants-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/2902\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania sends more border guards to help Latvia stop migrants from Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 26,<em>\u00a0Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Lithuania has sent 20 border guards to Latvia to help protect its border with Belarus from illegal migrants,\u00a0<em>Delfi<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unit&nbsp;will replace the 17 border guards sent to the country&nbsp;earlier. It&nbsp;includes commandos, investigators and dog handlers from the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT), the news website said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their deployment will last two weeks, and Vilnius will consider further assistance to Latvia depending on the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move&nbsp;comes shortly after&nbsp;Latvian President Edgars Rink\u0113vi\u010ds met with&nbsp;German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to&nbsp;discussed regional security and potential risks for NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Baltic leader&#8217;s press office, the officials talked about the threat of hybrid attacks&nbsp;from Belarus, which had been accused of using migrants as a weapon against the European Union. Rink\u0113vi\u010ds said that Riga was ready to take all necessary measures, including closing the frontiers with Belarus and Russia, especially if illegal migration increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latvian border guards have prevented 164 illegal border crossings from Belarus over the past day and 9,430 since the beginning of the year. The EU has recorded at least 32,270 attempts by illegal migrants to sneak in from the country since the start of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 28, the interior ministers of Poland and the Baltic States agreed to close their borders with Belarus in case of a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The migration crisis at the border aggravated in the spring of 2021 and has continued since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 26,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0Lithuania has sent 20 border guards to Latvia to help protect its border with Belarus from illegal migrants,\u00a0Delfi\u00a0reports. 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