{"id":75301,"date":"2024-03-25T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/75301\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"illegal-belarus-eu-border-crossings-soar-to-3000-since-early-march","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/75301\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Belarus-EU border crossings soar to 3,000 since early March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>March 25, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>The European Union (EU) did not allow at least 485 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus between March 22 and March 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service did not register any border violations for four consecutive days, but said their Latvian colleagues thwarted 29 attempts on March 22 and four attempts on March 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Polish Border Guard said 197 foreigners tried to illegally enter from Belarus on Friday and 90, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 21, the number of illegal border crossings by third-country nationals from Belarus into Poland spiked to 298, hitting a record high this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of 2024, the EU has recorded at least 3,552 attempts by illegal migrants to enter its territory from Belarus, with 2,775 attempts via Poland, 643 via Latvia and 134 via Lithuania. The EU has recorded 2,998 attempts in March alone.<\/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><em>Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of daily stats indicated fluctuated tension at the Belarusian-EU border throughout 2023 with illegal border crossings picking up the pace in February.<\/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>March 25, Pozirk. The European Union (EU) did not allow at least 485 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus between March 22 and March 24.\u00a0 The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service did not register any border violations for four consecutive days, but said their Latvian colleagues thwarted 29 attempts on March 22 and four attempts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":64879,"template":"","rubric":[30],"class_list":["post-75301","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","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>Illegal Belarus-EU border crossings soar to 3,000 since early March | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 25, Pozirk. 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