{"id":196472,"date":"2026-07-20T23:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/196472\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:59:31","slug":"lithuania-reports-spike-in-attempted-irregular-entriesfrom-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/196472\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania reports spike in\u00a0attempted\u00a0irregular\u00a0entries from\u00a0Belarus\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>July 20,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Lithuania&nbsp;did not allow&nbsp;28&nbsp;undocumented third-country foreigners to enter its territory from Belarus on&nbsp;July 19, 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&nbsp;jumped to&nbsp;20 on June 25 and July 18.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past&nbsp;55&nbsp;days, Vilnius did not report any irregular crossings on&nbsp;32&nbsp;days, including in late May and early June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of 2026,&nbsp;Lithuania&nbsp;has reportedly&nbsp;thwarted&nbsp;960&nbsp;irregular crossings,&nbsp;compared with&nbsp;941&nbsp;in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latvia&nbsp;has reported&nbsp;as many as 8,306&nbsp;attempts at&nbsp;irregular entry from Belarus&nbsp;this year, recording such incidents daily since March 25. July 19 saw a record low of two attempted crossings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polish border guards have not seen any undocumented migrants from Belarus&nbsp;for six days in a row, but reported 51 incidents in July and 280 since the beginning of the year.<\/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>July 20,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Lithuania&nbsp;did not allow&nbsp;28&nbsp;undocumented third-country foreigners to enter its territory from Belarus on&nbsp;July 19, 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&nbsp;jumped to&nbsp;20 on June 25 and July 18.&nbsp; Over the past&nbsp;55&nbsp;days, Vilnius did not report any irregular crossings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[30],"class_list":["post-196472","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\u00a0entries from\u00a0Belarus\u00a0 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 20,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Lithuania&nbsp;did not allow&nbsp;28&nbsp;undocumented third-country foreigners to enter its territory from Belarus\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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