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\n\n Migrants marching towards the Polish border in November 2021\n <\/div>\n \n
\n (Belarusian State Border Committee)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

January 10, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> About 4,000 illegal migrants in 596 groups were detected in Belarus in 2023, the interior ministry\u2019s press office reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of them were from Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and India, it added without specifying whether any measures were taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ministry cited the data in a report on police rounding up 14 foreigners who arrived in Belarus from Russia. The incident took place in a Minsk neighborhood, but the date remains unknown. The group included eight people from Pakistan, three from Afghanistan, two from Nepal and one from India. None of them had Belarusian visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All arrested were accused of breaking migration regulations and may face deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report in itself comes as a surprise after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has repeatedly indicated that in retaliation for sanctions Minsk would not prevent migrants from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interior ministry has not published statistical data on migrants \u201cdetected\u201d in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border started in spring 2021 and escalated in November 2021, with hundreds of migrants storming the Polish border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2024, Poland thwarted 35 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus, while Lithuania and Latvia did not record illegal border crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, illegal border crossings between Belarus and the EU soared by 32 percent with at least 42,078 attempts of which 25,571 via Poland, 13,863 via Latvia and 2,644 via Lithuania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of daily stats indicated fluctuated tension at the Belarusian-EU border throughout 2023 with a significant decrease at the end of the year and in early 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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