{"id":91488,"date":"2024-06-19T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/91488\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"illegal-belarus-eu-crossings-exceed-3000-in-june","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/91488\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Belarus-EU crossing attempts exceed 3,000 in June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

June 19, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Since June 1, the European Union countries have not allowed at least 3,167 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus, Pozirk<\/em>\u2018s analysis of border guards\u2019 data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tension at the border fell 30 percent compared with the same period in May yet soared 62 percent year on year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poland remained the primary target with 2,822 attempts, while Latvia and Lithuania thwarted 325 and 20 illegal border crossings, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past day, the EU did not allow at least 82 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus after thwarting 90 attempts on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2024, the EU thwarted at least 21,898 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus, with 19,220 attempts via Poland alone, 2,441 via Latvia and 237 via Lithuania. Illegal border crossings picked up pace in February, reaching record highs in May, Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of daily stats showed.<\/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

In June 2021, the Belarusian government announced the suspension of a readmission agreement with the EU in response to sanctions that followed the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk.<\/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 response to a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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