{"id":193593,"date":"2026-06-27T12:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/193593\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:47:14","slug":"lithuania-reports-spike-in-attempted-irregular-crossings-via-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/193593\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania reports spike in\u00a0attempted\u00a0irregular crossings via Belarus\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 26,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/strong>Lithuania&nbsp;did not allow&nbsp;20&nbsp;undocumented third-country foreigners to enter its territory from Belarus on June&nbsp;25, more than on any other day since&nbsp;May 25, when&nbsp;38&nbsp;attempted crossings were reported, according to&nbsp;<em>Pozirk\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;analysis of border guards\u2019 data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of crossing attempts reportedly ranged between one on June 13 and June 19 and 13 on June 22.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past&nbsp;31&nbsp;days, Vilnius did not report any irregular crossings on&nbsp;20&nbsp;days, including in late May and early June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of 2026, Belarus\u2019 western neighbors have thwarted at least 7,463&nbsp;irregular crossings,&nbsp;compared with 20,432 in the same period of 2025. A total of 2,016 attempts at irregular crossing were recorded in the first 25 days of June, down from 2,109 in the same period of May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of people&nbsp;eager&nbsp;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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Lithuania&nbsp;did not allow&nbsp;20&nbsp;undocumented third-country foreigners to enter its territory from Belarus on June&nbsp;25, more than on any other day since&nbsp;May 25, when&nbsp;38&nbsp;attempted crossings were reported, according to&nbsp;Pozirk\u2019s&nbsp;analysis of border guards\u2019 data. The number of crossing attempts reportedly ranged between one on June 13 and June 19 and 13 on June 22.&nbsp; Over the past&nbsp;31&nbsp;days, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[30],"class_list":["post-193593","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lithuania reports spike in\u00a0attempted\u00a0irregular crossings via Belarus\u00a0 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 26,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Lithuania&nbsp;did not allow&nbsp;20&nbsp;undocumented third-country foreigners to enter its territory from Belarus on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/193593\/\" 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