The European Commission has reiterated that Poland can use assistance from EU border agency Frontex to protect its border with Belarus, from where hundreds of migrants are trying to enter the country.
Poland's special services have acquired evidence that Belarusian government structures are "heavily involved" in transporting groups of migrants to the Polish-Belarusian border, a Polish special services spokesman has said.
A strong border policy is the only way to force the Belarusian regime to change its "criminal policy" of forcing migrants across its neighbours' borders, a Polish government official said on Tuesday, referring to the migration crisis between Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has accused Minsk and Moscow of masterminding the migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border.
Three people found dead on Polish territory close to the border with Belarus on Sunday died of hypothermia, the Polish prime minister said on Monday.
The bodies of three people, most probably migrants attempting to cross into Poland from Belarus, were found close to the Polish-Belarusian border on Sunday, the Polish prime minister said on Sunday evening in a Facebook post.
Between 100-250 illegal crossings of Poland’s border with Belarus are attempted every day, a deputy interior minister said on Friday.
The prime ministers of Poland and Lithuania, Mateusz Morawiecki and Ingrida Simonyte, in a joint statement on Friday criticised the Belarusian Alexandr Lukashenko regime for sponsoring illegal migration into Lithuania.
Lithuania has strengthened its border controls with Poland due to a growing number of illegal migrants trying to reach western Europe through that country.
Lithuania has announced that it will increase control of its border with Poland due to a growing number of illegal migrants trying to reach western Europe through that country.
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