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Due to the actions of the Belarusian leadership, the flow of migrant refugees to Lithuania has increased 13 times, the Danish portal Berlingske reports. Minsk recently introduced a visa-free regime for up to five days. Since the beginning of June, 1,350 illegal immigrants have crossed the Lithuanian border, although there were less than a hundred of them for the whole of 2020. And this is just the beginning.
These actions of Alexander Lukashenko are considered as revenge for the sanctions imposed after the incident with the plane in which Roman Protasevich was. “We will never keep anyone: they are not coming to us. They are going to an enlightened, warm, cozy Europe, ” the Belarusian president said some time ago.
“The last week has been difficult. We were not ready, we have never faced this before, ” said the head of the refugee reception center, Beatrice Bernotene. She doesn’t even know what will happen if the flow becomes more intense.
It is emphasized that in one day Belarus set its own record by transporting 150 illegal immigrants to Lithuania. Many of them are from Iraq and Turkey. There were several waves. One was dominated by Iraqi Kurds, the other by Africans, mainly from the Congo. Recently, the flow from Afghanistan has increased. Few of them intend to stay in Lithuania, theythey plan to move on-mainly to the countries of Western Europe. That is, Lukashenka decided to make migrants his weapon against the EU.
We also noticed an increase in the migration flow in Poland – 89 illegal immigrants who crossed the border were arrested there in a few days. As for Lithuania, Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod called it a “frontline zone”.