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Thousands of immigrants try to enter Poland via Belarus, Warsaw warns of "big conflict"
The Polish government has said several hundred migrants have already tried to break through the border, and that it expects attempts to resume soon.
Lithuania is preparing to declare a state of emergency, in light of the Lukashenko regime's efforts to flood the union with immigrants in retaliation for sanctions
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Monday, 08 November 2021, 21:03
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In the video: aerial photographs of immigrants on the Polish-Belarusian border documented by the Polish Ministry of Defense (Photo: Reuters)
Poland said today (Monday) that thousands of migrants are gathering at its border with Belarus, and it expects groups of several hundred of them to try to cross its territory in the coming hours.
Warsaw accuses Minsk of trying to provoke a "major confrontation" between them, after hundreds of migrants were documented marching towards the border while some tried to break through the fence using shovels and other tools.
"We expect that in the coming hours the attacks on our border will be resumed by groups of several hundred people," Pavel Soloch, head of the Polish National Security Bureau, told reporters.
Polish government spokesman Piotr Müller said there were currently between 3,000 and 4,000 migrants in the border area, and more than ten thousand other migrants across Belarus were willing to try and cross into Poland.
Warsaw has announced that it has deployed military forces, border guards and other police, while neighboring Lithuania has said it may declare a state of emergency on its border with Belarus.
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The EU, in which Poland and Lithuania are members, accuses Minsk of encouraging migrants from the Middle East and Africa to cross the bloc via Belarus, as a kind of hybrid war in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on President Alexander Lukashenko's regime for human rights violations and opposition repression.
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