{"id":70738,"date":"2024-03-01T22:39:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/70738\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"eu-neighbors-report-increase-in-illegal-attempts-to-cross-border-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/70738\/","title":{"rendered":"EU neighbors report increase in illegal attempts to cross border from Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 1, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The European Union (EU) has not allowed at least 64 migrants from Africa and Asia to enter illegally from Belarus on February 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service has not reported any incidents. Latvian border guards thwarted attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Polish Border Guard said 62 foreigners tried to illegally cross the Belarusian-Polish border yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2024, the EU thwarted 554 illegal border crossing attempts at its shared border with Belarus, with 443 attempts via Poland, 80 via Latvia and 31 via Lithuania.<\/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, including 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 by the end of the year and in early 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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\n\n\n

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