{"id":179025,"date":"2026-03-11T23:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/179025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:49:36","slug":"eu-countries-report-23-attempted-irregular-border-crossings-from-belarus-since-march-1","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/179025\/","title":{"rendered":"EU countries report 23 attempted irregular border crossings from Belarus since March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>March 11, <em>Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>As many as 23 attempts by undocumented migrants to cross the Belarusian border into neighboring EU countries were detected between March 1 and March 10, compared with 412 in the same period of the previous year, according to Pozirk\u2019s analysis of data from their border control services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, there were 14 such attempts at the border with Poland and nine at the border with Latvia. No attempted crossings have been reported at the border with Lithuania since February 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irregular migrants have attempted 148 times to cross the Belarusian border into the EU since the start of 2026, including 79 times into Poland, 40 times into Lithuania and 29 times into Latvia. There were 1,529 such attempts in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, the number of irregular crossings on the Belarus\u2013EU border more than tripled compared to January, rising to 97 from 28. However, the total for February was considerably lower than a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of people desperate to cross into the EU surged in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent asylum seekers from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 2021, the Belarusian government suspended 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<p>Latvia, Lithuania and Poland call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland signed a joint declaration on February 26 on strengthening cooperation to beef up border security and respond to hybrid threats. The governments committed \u201cto resist the instrumentalization of migration and other hybrid threats at the external borders of the European Union, including land, sea, and airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three countries agreed to develop corresponding measures within the existing legal framework of bilateral cooperation and on the EU level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 11, Pozirk. As many as 23 attempts by undocumented migrants to cross the Belarusian border into neighboring EU countries were detected between March 1 and March 10, compared with 412 in the same period of the previous year, according to Pozirk\u2019s analysis of data from their border control services. 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