So there's been some interesting developments in Eastern Europe in regards to Belarus and its neighbors. Leaving the defensive military exercises Russia is having with Belarus aside, it seems Belarus may potentially be fomenting migrants into moving across the border into Poland and Lithuania etc.
Lithuania also posted a video awhile ago of Belarussian Riot Police encouraging migrants to cross the border into Lithuania in full view of Lithuanian border guards as seen in the video within the BBC article. Some EU officials have accused Belarus of even flying in migrants which is something that was touched on in an article I found last August.
BBC said:Poland and fellow EU states Lithuania and Latvia have seen massive increases in migrants from Iraq, Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern and Asian countries since the start of the summer.
Last month alone, Polish border guards detained eight times as many people crossing the border illegally as they did in the whole of 2020.
The EU has accused Belarus's authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko of engineering the migrant influx as a form of retaliation against sanctions.
Poland imposes state of emergency on Belarus border
The government says it needs to curb a steep rise in illegal migrant crossings from Belarus.
www.bbc.com
Lithuania also posted a video awhile ago of Belarussian Riot Police encouraging migrants to cross the border into Lithuania in full view of Lithuanian border guards as seen in the video within the BBC article. Some EU officials have accused Belarus of even flying in migrants which is something that was touched on in an article I found last August.
Seems like an inversion of the popular stereotype... Iraq suspending air travel to Belarus to curb human trafficking.
But yes, it's related to the ongoing migrant crisis apparently.
Iraq suspends air travel to Belarus to curb human trafficking
www.kurdistan24.net