WARSAW, 17 Sep. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Shimonyte claims that not a migration crisis is taking place on the border of the republic with Belarus, but a hybrid attack arranged to divide the European Union. «We are unanimously not talking about illegal migration. We see a hybrid attack aimed at dividing the European Union countries,» she said Simonyte after meeting with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw on Friday.
Media: Latvia will spend almost half a million euros on border wire According to her, Lithuania will «cooperate at the European level to strengthen borders before hybrid attacks, to unite our forces.» border with Belarus, official Minsk was accused of creating a migration crisis. According to the latest data from the Polish side, since the beginning of September, Polish border guards have recorded more than 1.7 thousand attempts to illegally cross the border from Belarus. Over the past year, there were only 120 such attempts. In connection with the current situation, the President of Poland introduced a state of emergency on the territories bordering Belarus, the army and the police were involved in protecting the border. The EU claims that Belarus uses migrants as a «hybrid weapon» against the European Union after of how restrictive measures were introduced against Minsk. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko noted that Minsk will no longer restrain the flow of illegal migrants to the EU countries: because of the West's sanctions, there is «neither money nor energy for this.» The border guards of Belarus have repeatedly stated about the forcible expulsion of migrants by Lithuania, Poland and Latvia to the Belarusian territory.
Lithuania accused Russia and Belarus of a joint hybrid attack
