RFE
25 Nov 2021, 16:45 GMT+10
Some 200 migrants attempted to break through a fence on the Polish-Belarus border late on November 24, the Polish Border Guard said, amid continuing tensions at the European Union's external border.
Brussels has accused Belarus of trying to destabilize the bloc by bringing thousands of men, women, and children from the Middle East and pushing them to cross into the EU through Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Minsk's action is seen as retaliation for sanctions imposed by the EU on the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka following its brutal and sometimes deadly crackdown against protesters who accuse the authoritarian leader of stealing an election in August 2020.
SEE ALSO: Watchdog Says Migrants Face 'Serious' Abuses At Belarusian-Polish Border
The fresh incident near the village of Czeremcha is part of a series of daily clashes between groups of migrants helped by Belarusian soldiers and Polish border forces.
'They were trying to break through the border, attacking the border,' Border Guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska told the media on November 25. 'They were throwing branches and stones and the attempt was stopped by our officers.'
Michalska said the migrants had flattened a section of the fence with logs in their bid to get across. Five migrants have been hospitalized after suffering from exhaustion, she said.
Top EU officials say they're readying a fifth package of sanctions against Belarus for mounting what it called a 'hybrid attack" against the bloc.
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