{"id":82414,"date":"2024-04-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/82414\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"illegal-belarus-eu-border-crossings-exceed-10000-since-january","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/82414\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Belarus-EU border crossings exceed 10,000 since January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

April 26, Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>The European Union (EU) has not allowed at least 138 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus over the past day after thwarting 180 illegal border crossings on Wednesday, Pozirk<\/em>\u2018s analysis of border guards\u2019 data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Polish Border Guard said 123 foreigners tried to illegally enter from Belarus on April 25 and 152, on April 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvian border guards thwarted 15 attempts on Thursday and 28, on Wednesday. Their Lithuanian colleagues have not registered border violations over the past two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2024, the EU thwarted at least 10,114 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus, with 8,520 attempts via Poland, 1,412 via Latvia and 182 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. It escalated in November 2021, with hundreds of migrants storming the Polish border.<\/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

Pozirk\u2019s analysis of daily stats indicated fluctuated tension at the Belarusian-EU border throughout 2023 with illegal border crossings picking up the pace in February and reaching 5,322 attempts in April alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Baltic States and Poland accused Belarusian authorities of creating the trouble, while the latter blamed it on the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 2023, the interior ministers of Poland and the Baltic States warned that they would close the border with Belarus in response to a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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