{"id":65774,"date":"2024-02-08T14:06:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=65774"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"eu-stops-seven-migrants-at-belarus-border","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/65774\/","title":{"rendered":"EU stops seven migrants at Belarus border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 8, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>The European Union (EU) has not allowed at least seven migrants to enter illegally from Belarus over the past day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service registered two border violations, while Polish border guards said five foreigners tried to illegally enter from Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of 2024, the EU thwarted 125 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus, with 110 attempts via Poland, 10 via Lithuania and five via Latvia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p><em>Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of daily stats indicated fluctuated tension at the Belarusian-EU border throughout 2023 with a significant decrease by the end of the year and in early 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border started in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent migrants from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU. It escalated in November 2021, with hundreds of migrants storming the Polish border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Baltic states and Poland accused Belarusian authorities of creating the trouble, while the latter blamed it on the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2023, the interior ministers of Poland and the Baltic States warned that they would close the border with Belarus in case of a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 8, Pozirk. The European Union (EU) has not allowed at least seven migrants to enter illegally from Belarus over the past day. The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service registered two border violations, while Polish border guards said five foreigners tried to illegally enter from Belarus. 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