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The latest escalation of this crisis started on Friday night as Belarus troops ripped down posts next to barbed-wire barriers that the Polish government has installed along 120 miles of the 250-mile border between the two nations
They are then sent onwards to the EU in revenge for sanctions imposed after his crackdown on protests last year, following a fraudulent election and the illegal diverting of a Ryanair passenger flight to seize a prominent dissident in May.
They released video footage showing border guards targeted by strong lasers and bright strobe lighting. A spokesman for the Polish Border Force said about 100 migrants were armed with tear gas, which was used against their guards.
Moscow denies orchestrating the Belarus policy. Yesterday, Putin said: ‘We have nothing to do with it.' He blamed the West for the crisis, saying its policies in the Middle East were the reason migrants wanted to flee and go to Europe.
The soldiers at the border shining the lights were carrying out the orders of their Minsk dictator leader Alexander Lukashenko (pictured on Friday in Minsk) to help migrants across the border to destabilise the EU
Among those who have succeeded in crossing into Poland is Malak, 26, an Iraqi due to give birth in three weeks. She made the journey with her husband and three young daughters in the hope of giving them a better life in Germany.
General Sir Nick Carter, chief of Britain's defence staff, told Times Radio there was a greater risk of tensions in the new era of a ‘multipolar world', and said authoritarian rivals were willing to use any tool at their disposal, such as migrants, gas prices, proxy forces or cyber attacks. ‘The character of warfare has changed,' he said.
Polish authorities say soldiers loyal to Alexander Lukashenko, the despotic ruler of the former Soviet republic, have been arming refugees with tear gas as he steps up his so-called ‘hybrid war' on Europe.
The latest escalation of this crisis started on Friday night as Belarus troops ripped down posts next to barbed-wire barriers that the Polish government has installed along 120 miles of the 250-mile border between the two nations.
Donald Tusk, the Polish former EU president, has called for Nato to invoke Article Four, while Lithuania's National Defence Council met to agree on the criteria for seeking a unified Nato response to the border threat.
Certainly, Lukashenko's hybrid attacks, weaponising migration to drive wedges between allies and Elon Musk’s X prohrává bitvu o federální žádost o Trumpovy DM inflame divisions across Europe, bear all the hallmarks of Putin's malevolent ability to exploit volatile situations.
‘There is no future in Syria,' said one middle-aged man. ‘We have lost track of who is fighting who in our country. There are no jobs, no schools for our children, no hospitals for our families… no hope or future.'
Meanwhile, hundreds of migrants, reported to be mainly Kurds, are sheltering in freezing conditions in a militarised no-man's zone on the border between Belarus and both Poland and Lithuania, which refuse to let them into their countries. Belarus says that there are 2,000 people in a rapidly growing camp on the Polish border, including pregnant women and children. Poland says there is double this number, with more arriving every day.
President Joe Biden also expressed alarm on the migrant crisis. ‘We communicated our concern to Russia, we communicated our concern to Belarus,' he said. Both Ukraine and Poland have sent thousands of extra troops to reinforce borders. The Baltic states issued a joint statement from their defence ministers last week warning that the migrant crisis could ‘spill over into the military domain'. The following day, a squad of 250 Russian paratroopers carried out ‘snap' exercises with Belarus forces just three miles from the Lithuanian border.
The latest illegal incursion came as nations bordering Belarus, alarmed by the dramatically increased tensions and Russian military manoeuvres in the region, discuss whether to deploy a rarely invoked Nato treaty article that would lead to a unified response from all 30 signatories.
Videos have also shown Belarusian officials with wire-cutters and handing out tools to refugees to destroy fencing as they encourage the mass migration into the EU in revenge for Brussels' support of the Minsk dictatorship's critics.
The latest escalation of this crisis started on Friday night as Belarus troops ripped down posts next to barbed-wire barriers that the Polish government has installed along 120 miles of the 250-mile border between the two nations
They are then sent onwards to the EU in revenge for sanctions imposed after his crackdown on protests last year, following a fraudulent election and the illegal diverting of a Ryanair passenger flight to seize a prominent dissident in May.
They released video footage showing border guards targeted by strong lasers and bright strobe lighting. A spokesman for the Polish Border Force said about 100 migrants were armed with tear gas, which was used against their guards.
Moscow denies orchestrating the Belarus policy. Yesterday, Putin said: ‘We have nothing to do with it.' He blamed the West for the crisis, saying its policies in the Middle East were the reason migrants wanted to flee and go to Europe.
The soldiers at the border shining the lights were carrying out the orders of their Minsk dictator leader Alexander Lukashenko (pictured on Friday in Minsk) to help migrants across the border to destabilise the EU
Among those who have succeeded in crossing into Poland is Malak, 26, an Iraqi due to give birth in three weeks. She made the journey with her husband and three young daughters in the hope of giving them a better life in Germany.
General Sir Nick Carter, chief of Britain's defence staff, told Times Radio there was a greater risk of tensions in the new era of a ‘multipolar world', and said authoritarian rivals were willing to use any tool at their disposal, such as migrants, gas prices, proxy forces or cyber attacks. ‘The character of warfare has changed,' he said.
Polish authorities say soldiers loyal to Alexander Lukashenko, the despotic ruler of the former Soviet republic, have been arming refugees with tear gas as he steps up his so-called ‘hybrid war' on Europe.
The latest escalation of this crisis started on Friday night as Belarus troops ripped down posts next to barbed-wire barriers that the Polish government has installed along 120 miles of the 250-mile border between the two nations.
Donald Tusk, the Polish former EU president, has called for Nato to invoke Article Four, while Lithuania's National Defence Council met to agree on the criteria for seeking a unified Nato response to the border threat.
Certainly, Lukashenko's hybrid attacks, weaponising migration to drive wedges between allies and Elon Musk’s X prohrává bitvu o federální žádost o Trumpovy DM inflame divisions across Europe, bear all the hallmarks of Putin's malevolent ability to exploit volatile situations.
‘There is no future in Syria,' said one middle-aged man. ‘We have lost track of who is fighting who in our country. There are no jobs, no schools for our children, no hospitals for our families… no hope or future.'
Meanwhile, hundreds of migrants, reported to be mainly Kurds, are sheltering in freezing conditions in a militarised no-man's zone on the border between Belarus and both Poland and Lithuania, which refuse to let them into their countries. Belarus says that there are 2,000 people in a rapidly growing camp on the Polish border, including pregnant women and children. Poland says there is double this number, with more arriving every day.
President Joe Biden also expressed alarm on the migrant crisis. ‘We communicated our concern to Russia, we communicated our concern to Belarus,' he said. Both Ukraine and Poland have sent thousands of extra troops to reinforce borders. The Baltic states issued a joint statement from their defence ministers last week warning that the migrant crisis could ‘spill over into the military domain'. The following day, a squad of 250 Russian paratroopers carried out ‘snap' exercises with Belarus forces just three miles from the Lithuanian border.
The latest illegal incursion came as nations bordering Belarus, alarmed by the dramatically increased tensions and Russian military manoeuvres in the region, discuss whether to deploy a rarely invoked Nato treaty article that would lead to a unified response from all 30 signatories.
Videos have also shown Belarusian officials with wire-cutters and handing out tools to refugees to destroy fencing as they encourage the mass migration into the EU in revenge for Brussels' support of the Minsk dictatorship's critics.
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