Migrants, Poland uses water cannons on the border with Belarus

  Polish border guards on the border with Belarus used water cannons to push back a large group of migrants mostly from Congo and Eritrea. This was announced by the Dubicze-Cerkevne border guard in a statement. In mid-2021, several thousand migrants gathered at the Polish-Belarusian border with the intention and hope of crossing the border. Since then, the flows have continued unabated. Security measures have been strengthened with the increase of the military presence. The Polish authorities accuse Minsk of the umpteenth migration crisis, which rejects the accusations. On the other hand, the same points out that migrants are expelled from the Polish side on the territory of the Belarusian Republic, with an escalation deliberately engineered by Poland.

Soldiers with rifles against the background of a fence on the Polish-Belarusian border, so the images confirm the news that the general command ... of the armed forces in Warsaw has fired its snipers on the border with Belarus. "An evening walk in the fresh air is good for health. Snipers are masters of reconnaissance, navigation and weapons work. They are characterized by self-confidence and patience," reads the caption below the photo. In mid-2021, several thousand migrants gathered at the Polish-Belarusian border in hopes of reaching EU countries. Polish authorities have tightened border security, recalled the army and halted attempts by illegal immigrants to enter the country, blaming Minsk for the migration crisis. Belarus rejects all these allegations, stating that Poland is forcibly expelling migrants to its territory and artificially aggravating the situation with refugees.

The President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that Minsk will no longer curb the flow of illegal migrants to EU countries: due to Western sanctions, there is "neither money nor strength" for this. Poland has already built a fence on its border with Belarus. The length of the fence is 186 kilometers, the height is five meters and the cost is 1.6 billion zlotys (about 400 million dollars). Now the project is being completed with night vision cameras, motion sensors and other electronic devices. Poland has increased the number of its troops on the borders of this country, ... claiming that the pressure of migrants on the border with Belarus has increased. According to RT News, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said yesterday amid tensions with Belarus that he had sent 4,000 additional military forces to Belarus' border due to growing migrant pressure.

While visiting the Polish soldiers' temporary camp on the border with Belarus, Mariusz Blaszczak said that there is no doubt that the Polish border is under threat. Earlier, 2,000 Polish army soldiers were sent to the Belarusian border claiming to escalate migrant pressure. the relations of Poland as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Belarus; Russia's only ally in Europe has experienced new tensions in recent weeks. Tensions between Minsk and Warsaw have recently escalated after Poland announced that the European country would like to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nuclear program under the guise of deploying Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus.