BREAKING NEWS: Video shows hundreds of migrants trying to storm Polish border
Polish Border Guard reported that hundreds of migrants tried to illegally cross the Polish-Belarusian border near Kuźnica on Monday, and many of them were highly aggressive. Armed Belarusian officers were present behind the huge group of migrants.
“The attempt to break through the border was repelled. Soldiers, Border Guard officers and police officers are present in the area,” said the spokeswoman of the Podlasie Border Guard unit Katarzyna Zdanowicz. She added that all necessary measures to ensure the border’s security against the migrants are being undertaken. Zdanowicz noted that large groups of migrants are also currently moving along the border and are throwing planks at the border fence. The groups are comprised mainly of young men who are encouraging other migrants to force their way through the border.
The Polish Ministry of National Defense posted about the attack on social media and attached a video from the incident.
🔴 PILNE | Polskie służby udaremniły próbę siłowego przedarcia się na polską stronę przez migrantów na południe od przejścia granicznego w Kuźnicy. Sytuacja została opanowana. pic.twitter.com/iJNvufd524
— MSWiA (@MSWiA_GOV_PL) November 8, 2021
Belarus' regime escalates the border crisis – migrants are pushed to 🇪🇺 border by armed men. Lukashenka is fully responsible for the hybrid attack on 🇵🇱🇱🇹🇪🇺. The migrant smuggling, violence & ill-treatment must stop. Strong 🇪🇺 response is needed. #UNSC should discuss this crisis. pic.twitter.com/GhoWGWKZdH
— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (@Tsihanouskaya) November 8, 2021
The Border Guard underlined that even more numerous groups of migrants are being led to the border by Belarusian services. Border Guard officers are at the scene and are repelling as many illegal migrants as possible
PSG Kuźnica:
— Straż Graniczna (@Straz_Graniczna) November 8, 2021
Kolejne liczne grupy migrantów podprowadzane są przez białoruskie służby do linii granicy 🇵🇱🇧🇾. Migranci podejmują pierwsze próby siłowego forsowania granicy. Jesteśmy na miejscu @Straz_Graniczna, @PolskaPolicja ,@MON_GOV_PL #TrzymamyStraz pic.twitter.com/AM334Q1SiB
Grupa migrantów znajduje się obecnie w okolicach Kuźnicy pic.twitter.com/w5VxXp9QqQ
— Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej 🇵🇱 (@MON_GOV_PL) November 8, 2021
Independent Belarusian journalists warned that Belarusian services pushed the migrants into the forest near the border.
That’s what the situation looks like now from the Belarusian side. Migrants are using trees to try to force the border. pic.twitter.com/sfAHSQ8bVl
— Tadeusz Giczan (@TadeuszGiczan) November 8, 2021
Meanwhile, independent Belarusian television Nexta explained that Monday’s march on the border was organized by the Kurdish migrants themselves.
Migrants on border are #Kurds, they organized today's march themselves
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 8, 2021
They were planning to go exactly to the border crossing point in order to cross border legally and ask Poles to let them into #Poland. However #Belarusian border guards drove them off the road into the woods. pic.twitter.com/7TtqZTnYmE
Polish Minister of Defense Mariusz Błaszczak assured that over 12,000 soldiers were on duty at the border and that together with the Ministry of the Interior services, they were prepared to defend the Polish border.
Due to the events on the Polish-Belarusian border, a government crisis management team gathered in Warsaw and will soon discuss the situation with President Andrzej Duda.
Source: Remix News