{"id":103017,"date":"2024-09-02T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T08:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/103017\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"illegal-belarus-eu-crossings-exceed-2800-in-august","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/103017\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Belarus-EU crossings exceed 2,800 in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

September 2, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The European Union (EU) stopped at least 2,848 illegal border crossings via Belarus last month, says Pozirk<\/em>‘s analysis of the border guards’ data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illegal migration rose by 14.7 percent from July but dropped 36.6 percent year on year. Poland reported at least 2,264 incidents in August; Latvia 484; Lithuania, 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2024, the EU thwarted at least 28,381 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus, with 23,823 attempts via Poland, 4,092 via Latvia and 466 via Lithuania.<\/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.<\/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

Belarus\u2019 western neighbors call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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