“Our key goal is to stop and contain a possible mass influx of illegal migrants,” Monastyrskiy said. The country is planning military exercises in the next two weeks to prepare for attempts by migrants to illegally cross into it. Ukrainian authorities also plan to dig out a 4-meter (13-foot) wide and 2-meter (6.5-foot) deep ditch on the open parts of the country’s border with Russia and Belarus. is the most rational decision,” Monastyrskiy said, speaking in the Ukrainian parliament. “Building a fence, a net and barbed wire, with a total coverage by surveillance and alarm systems, along the entire border. Ukraine, which borders both Belarus and Russia, said Friday it would build a 2,500-kilometer (1,550-mile) fence along its border with those neighbors to help fend off any illegal influx of migrants.įunds should be allocated next year for the building of the fence that will cost an estimated 17 billion hryvnas (about $640 million,) Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrskiy said. Belarus denies engineering the crisis, which has seen migrants entering the country since last summer and then trying to cross into Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. The West has accused Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko of using the migrants as pawns to destabilize the EU in retaliation for its sanctions on his authoritarian regime. The standoff set alarm bells ringing in the region. refugee agency says about half the migrants at the border area were women and children. Tensions flared at the Poland-Belarus border in recent days, with about 2,000 people trapped between forces from the two countries. Road traffic was stopped there last week.
Poland has notified Belarus it intends to halt railway freight traffic at the border crossing near Kuznica on Sunday, out of security concerns, due to the continuing presence of migrants at the warehouse there. we are going to overcome this crisis and that the Belarusian regime is going to stop its hybrid attacks against our countries,” Duda said. Meanwhile, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, on a visit to North Macedonia, said that in recent talks with Stoltenberg he has “indicated all possible hypothetical military threats” that might emanate from Belarus. “We call on Russia to be transparent and to prevent an escalation and to help and to reduce the tensions along the borders with Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said. He also noted that NATO has seen “a significant military buildup by Russia close to the borders of Ukraine (with an) unusual concentration of forces.” He welcomed ”the fact that Iraq is now taking back people and have stopped” flying migrants to Belarus. “We are ready to provide support,” Stoltenberg told reporters in Berlin. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday reiterated his warning that the situation on the border represents a security challenge. They are now in hospitals or in guarded centers for foreigners, waiting for their international protection applications to be processed.
8.Ī charity collection was held in Michalow, near Poland’s border with Belarus, with local people and some from across the country bringing clothes, blankets and other items for hundreds of migrants who have entered Poland. They had been camping in a cold and wet forest since Nov. Still, many migrants remained in a heated warehouse that Belarus recently made available near the border. Hundreds of Iraqis flew back home Thursday from Belarus after abandoning their hopes of reaching the EU. Some migrants have thrown stones and used tree branches to hit Polish border guards. Two other large groups of migrants were prevented from entering. The others will have to return to Belarus, Michalska said. They included a family of five who said they wanted to stay in Poland, opening a procedure toward settlement. WARSAW, Poland - Polish authorities said Friday there are no more migrants camping along the Belarus side of the European Union’s eastern border, but attempts at illegally crossing into the bloc’s territory are continuing and becoming more aggressive.Īnd Ukraine, which also borders Belarus, said it would build a border fence and ditch and hold military drills to forestall any attempted influx of migrants.Īround 50 migrants got through a fence into EU member Poland on Thursday, Anna Michalska, a spokeswoman for Poland’s Border Guard said.
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