{"id":47047,"date":"2023-05-30T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/eu-stops-84-illegal-migrants-at-belarus-border\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"eu-stops-84-illegal-migrants-at-belarus-border","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47047\/","title":{"rendered":"EU stops 84 illegal migrants at Belarus border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 30, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>The European Union has not allowed at least 84 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus over the past day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service did not record illegal border crossings but <a href=\"https:\/\/vsat.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/neileistu-neteisetu-migrantu-statistika\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> their Latvian colleagues thwarted 17 attempts on May 29.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> The Polish Border Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Straz_Graniczna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> that 67 foreigners, including nationals of India, Sri Lanka, Congo, Mali and Afghanistan, tried to illegally cross the border from Belarus. Border guards arrested a Lithuanian national for complicity in illegal migration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Since the start of 2023, the EU has recorded at least 15,260 attempts by illegal migrants to enter its territory from Belarus, with 10,540 attempts via Poland, 3,604 via Latvia and 1,116 via Lithuania. Illegal migrants attempted to cross the Belarusian-EU border 4,460 times since the start of May.<\/p>\n<p> BPN\u2019s analysis of daily stats indicates growing tension on the Belarusian-EU border. There were 1,989 illegal attempts in January, 1,970 in February, 3,401 in March and 3,440 in April, with Poland being the prime target.<\/p>\n<p> The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border dates back to the spring of 2021. It escalated on November 8, 2021, when thousands of migrants set up a camp near the Polish border. The Baltic states and Poland accused Belarusian authorities of creating the trouble, while the latter blamed it on the West.<\/p>\n<p> Migration figures had dropped significantly by the time Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but have risen more recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 30, BPN. The European Union has not allowed at least 84 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus over the past day.&nbsp; The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service did not record illegal border crossings but said their Latvian colleagues thwarted 17 attempts on May 29.&nbsp; The Polish Border Guard said that 67 foreigners, including nationals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47047","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EU stops 84 illegal migrants at Belarus border | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 30, BPN. 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