{"id":86198,"date":"2024-05-20T23:50:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/86198\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"immigrants-try-to-set-fire-to-military-post-polish-border-guard","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/86198\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants try to set fire to military post \u2013 Polish Border Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/granica_polska_bel_1128_20240520.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/granica_polska_bel_1128_20240520.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/granica_polska_bel_1128_20240520-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/granica_polska_bel_1128_20240520-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/granica_polska_bel_1128_20240520-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/granica_polska_bel_1128_20240520-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Polish Border Guard)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 20, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The Podlaskie branch of the Polish Border Guard registered 729 attempts to illegally cross from Belarus between May 17 and 19, the agency&#8217;s press office <a href=\"https:\/\/podlaski.strazgraniczna.pl\/pod\/aktualnosci\/60516,Granica-polsko-bialoruska-trzy-dni-niepokoju.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On Friday, May 17, we registered 219 attempts to enter Poland illegally, on Saturday \u2013 264 attempts, and on Sunday \u2013 232 attempts,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The immigrants on the Belarusian side were aggressive and attacked border guards several times with stones and sticks, according to the report. They also tried to set fire to a military post near the village of Dubicze Cerkiewne, Podlaskie province, the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zabor_polsha_belarus_straz_graniczna_1128x752-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zabor_polsha_belarus_straz_graniczna_1128x752-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zabor_polsha_belarus_straz_graniczna_1128x752-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zabor_polsha_belarus_straz_graniczna_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zabor_polsha_belarus_straz_graniczna_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Five Somalis pushed back to Belarus from Poland \u2013 border committee<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">May 19, Pozirk. The State Border Committee accused Polish law enforcers of beating and pushing back to Belarus five Somali asylum seekers. Belarusian border guards reportedly found the group on Friday. Three were taken to hospital with leg injuries and &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/85918\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>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<p>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<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 20, Pozirk. The Podlaskie branch of the Polish Border Guard registered 729 attempts to illegally cross from Belarus between May 17 and 19, the agency&#8217;s press office reported today. &#8220;On Friday, May 17, we registered 219 attempts to enter Poland illegally, on Saturday \u2013 264 attempts, and on Sunday \u2013 232 attempts,&#8221; it added. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":86111,"template":"","rubric":[14,30],"class_list":["post-86198","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Migrants try to set fire to military post \u2013 Polish Border Guard | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 20, Pozirk. 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