{"id":152062,"date":"2021-10-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=152062"},"modified":"2021-11-01T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T07:52:58","slug":"how-lukashenko-s-regime-uses-illegal-migration-as-a-hybrid-weapon-against-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/how-lukashenko-s-regime-uses-illegal-migration-as-a-hybrid-weapon-against-the-eu","title":{"rendered":"How Lukashenko\u2019s Regime Uses Illegal Migration as a Hybrid Weapon Against the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In attempts to retaliate against the EU\u2019s sanctions, the Belarusian government implements a deliberate campaign to destabilize the neighboring member states through illegal migrations. This has caused a major humanitarian crisis at the Belarus-Poland border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though Lukashenko rejects all the accusations, he himself threatened to \u201cflood the EU with migrants and drugs\u201d in May this year. The EU says the government of Belarus is orchestrating this humanitarian crisis, and the numerous accounts of illegal migrants helped by \u201cfacilitators\u201d to reach the EU borders, among other things, prove that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the temperatures falling and the new Polish law enabling the border guards to immediately expel migrants who close the border illegally, the situation is only going to worsen, as the Belarusian border control simply does not allow them back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We summed up the key numbers and facts that illustrate that Belarus is using illegal migration as a weapon in this infographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In attempts to retaliate against the EU\u2019s sanctions, the Belarusian government implements a deliberate campaign to destabilize the neighboring member states through illegal migrations. This has caused a major humanitarian crisis at the Belarus-Poland border. 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