NYT: Russia and Belarus Help Funnel Migrants Into EU Countries via Latvias
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Courrier internationalIN GREEN ZONE (4/5). From Finland to Poland, walls and barbed wire stand at the borders with Belarus and Russia. A steel curtain
The eastern border of the European Union and NATO is the Polish-Belarusian border, where a 186-kilometer-long steel fence has been built. For years, it has been guarded not only by the border guard, but also by the army. On-site report from the Białowieża Forest.
This year alone, over 11,000 attempts to cross the border from Belarus into Latvia have been stopped. Latvian authorities describe the migrants as a hybrid threat orchestrated by Belarus and Russia. “The aim is to destabilize the EU,” says the head of a border crossing that has been closed due to the hybrid threat.
Latvia accused Russia and Belarus of transporting migrants across the border before the Seimas elections, where more than 11,000 people have been deployed since the beginning of the year.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Song Jin-won = Russia and its ally Belarus are secretly assisting the large-scale migration of refugees to Europe to foment social unrest in Europe...
Russia and Belarus have moved into a new phase of hybrid aggression against the countries of the Eastern Flange of NATO, using hybridally the flows of illegal migrants to destabilize borders and create tension. The Russian and Belarusian Security Service records have turned migrants into weapons against NATO — Latvia's first appearance was Guildhall.
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