{"id":69182,"date":"2024-02-23T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=69182"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"poland-reports-50-border-crossing-attempts-from-belarus-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/69182\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland reports 50 illegal border crossing attempts from Belarus in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 23, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Polish border guards thwarted 50 attempts by migrants to illegally cross from Belarus into the European Union on February 21 and 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No attempts were reported at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border and Belarusian-Latvian border on these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of 2024, the EU neighbors thwarted at least 317 illegal border crossing attempts (96 in January and 221 in February). Poland reported 269 attempts, Latvia, 26 and Lithuania, 22.<\/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 23, Pozirk. Polish border guards thwarted 50 attempts by migrants to illegally cross from Belarus into the European Union on February 21 and 22. No attempts were reported at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border and Belarusian-Latvian border on these days. Since the start of 2024, the EU neighbors thwarted at least 317 illegal border crossing attempts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[30],"class_list":["post-69182","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Poland reports 50 illegal border crossing attempts from Belarus in two days | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 23, Pozirk. 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