Photo: Lilia Sharlovskaya
The border service of Belarus was accused of facilitating illegal migration in Europe. Employees of the European Agency for External Border Security Frontex, who provide assistance to Lithuanian border guards, said that Belarusian security forces are helping illegal immigrants to get to the border with Lithuania.
According to Delfi, experts observed a strange scene during a patrol in the Shalchininksky district. It is reported that a group of migrants was seen on the other side of the border, accompanied by a departmental car. The Lithuanian Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that such cars are used by Belarusian border guards.
Migrants are escorted to the Lithuanian border: @Frontex recorded the actions of Belarusian border guards https://t.co/UuLfDKME2R
— Eitvydas Bajarūnas (@EitvydasB) August 3, 2021
Since the beginning of the year, more than four thousand illegal migrants have arrived in Lithuania from the territory of Belarus. According to reports, last night Lithuanian border guards “returned” several groups of illegal immigrants to Belarus.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has previously stated that Minsk does not have the capacity to deter illegal migrants from the Middle East, who use Belarus as a transit point on the way to the European Union.
“We are being strangled and required from us to… we defended them, ” he was indignant the other day.
The Russian Embassy in Lithuania, meanwhile, rejected accusations of facilitating illegal migration on a par with Minsk. Thus, the Foreign Ministry of the Baltic country stated that not only Belarus, but also Russia could contribute to illegal border crossing.