Polish authorities said on Monday they had mobilized additional soldiers as footage on social media showed hundreds of migrants in Belarus walking toward the border with Poland
Polish authorities accused Belarus of trying to spark a major confrontation on Monday and said they had mobilized additional soldiers as footage on social media showed hundreds of migrants walking towards the Polish border.
“Belarus wants to cause a major incident, preferably with shots fired and casualties: according to media reports, they are preparing a major provocation near Kuznica Bialostocka, that there will be an attempt at a mass border crossing,” Deputy Foreign Minister Piotr Wawrzyk told Polish public radio. Poland has stationed more than 12,000 troops at the border, the defence minister said, while sharing aerial footage of migrants clustered on the Belarusian side. Latvia, which shares a border with Belarus, called the situation “alarming.”
The Belarusian state border committee confirmed that many refugees were moving towards the Polish border, and said Warsaw was taking an “inhumane attitude.” Charities say migrants face gruelling conditions trying to cross the border from Belarus in freezing weather with a lack of food and medical attention.
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