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Poland blames Russia for immigration crisis on Belarus border: "Putin - the brain"
The prime minister said after a visit by forces in the region that the leaders of Belarus and Russia were creating chaos designed to destabilize the EU: "This is a new kind of war in which people are serving as human shields."
About 2,000 people are stuck at the border, in extreme cold conditions
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Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 08:16
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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)
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said yesterday (Tuesday) that Russian President Vladimir Putin is behind the immigrant crisis on the border with Belarus.
According to him, the dictatorial control of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, is winning the crisis, but "his planner is in Moscow."
At least 2,000 migrants stranded on the border in extreme cold conditions and documents from the region showed crowds on the Belarusian side of the border fence with Poland.
Video footage shows crowds of people on the Belarusian side of a barbed wire fence with Poland.
Some try to make their way through shovels, screwdrivers, tree trunks and a group force, while the Polish Border Police push them away with tear gas.
"This attack by Lukashenko has a mind in Moscow, the mind is President Putin," he said in a speech delivered to the king at an emergency parliamentary session after visiting forces at the border.
He accused the leaders of Russia and Belarus of trying to destabilize the EU - of which the two countries are not a part - by allowing immigrants to pass through Belarus and enter the bloc.
(Photo: Reuters)
Morawiecki described the situation as "a new kind of war in which people serve as human shields", saying Poland was facing a "show" designed to create chaos in the EU.
He added that this was the first time in 30 years that the Polish Border Guard had been attacked in such a "cruel" manner.
Many of the immigrants are young men, but there are also women and children among them, mainly from the Middle East and Asia.
They are parked in tents in Belarus, right on the border, trapped between Polish guards on the one hand and Belarusian guards on the other.
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