The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania declared a provocation from Minsk when 12 Belarusian border guards illegally crossed the Lithuanian border. This is reported by "European Truth".
In response, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that it was increasing its presence at the border.
"We cannot tolerate such brazen provocations, when 12 Belarusian border guards crossed the border of the Republic of Lithuania today. We immediately reacted to this provocation and made a decision to further strengthen border protection," said Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, representatives of the Belarusian security forces with shields and riot control gear forcibly pushed out 35 migrants in the Shalchyninsk district and entered the territory of Lithuania themselves. The State Border Guard Service shared a video of this incident on Facebook on Tuesday evening.
According to the service, the Belarusians themselves published how a group of migrants was trying to get to Lithuania, but kept silent that the migrants were being forced into Lithuania by Belarusian security forces.
"After repeated warnings by the employees of the State Border Protection Service, the violators left in the direction of Belarus," the service noted.
More than 4,1 people arrived in Lithuania across the border with Belarus this year. illegal migrants. Most of them are from Iraq. Lithuania accuses the Minsk regime of organizing migrant flows and calls it hybrid aggression.
On Wednesday, the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the EU countries will hold a crisis meeting to discuss the situation surrounding the influx of migrants from Belarus.
