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Polish forces fire tear gas at migrants on Belarus border

Polish forces fire tear gas at migrants on Belarus border

Poland: Polish forces fired tear gas and deployed water cannons against stone-throwing migrants trying to cross the Belarusian border on Tuesday, sparking accusations from Belarus that Poland was trying to escalate the crisis. Polish border guards estimate up to 4,000 migrants are currently camped out along the border between Poland and Belarus in increasingly dire conditions and … Read more

Putin ‘mastermind’ of migrant crisis: Polish PM

WARSAW- Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday accused Russian leader Vladimir Putin of orchestrating an unprecedented wave of migrants trying to illegally enter Poland from Belarus and threatening to destabilise the European Union. “This attack which Lukashenko is conducting has its mastermind in Moscow, the mastermind is President Putin,” Morawiecki told an emergency session of … Read more

Hundreds of migrants trapped in Belarus-Poland border standoff

WARSAW – Hundreds of desperate migrants were trapped in freezing weather on the border between Belarus and EU and NATO member Poland on Tuesday, with Warsaw accusing the regime in Minsk of using them to threaten European security. Western critics have for months said Belarus’s strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko is luring migrants from the Middle East … Read more