On Saturday morning, Polish border guards reported several attempts of violent mass violations on the Polish-Belarusian border in the past 24 hours, the largest of which was about two hundred people.
Border Guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska told the press that most of the cases occurred in the central part of the common border near the town of Dubicce Sirkeuen. The largest group of immigrants there numbered two hundred and in other cases dozens.
The migrants threw stones and firecrackers at the Polish side and used tear gas. Michalska said 24 people managed to cross the Polish side of the border, where they were arrested and turned back.
He added: Ambulances were called for a family of three seeking international protection in Poland. The couple’s eight-month-old daughter was in tears on the Belarusian side, she was taken to the hospital with her mother, her health was not in danger.
On Saturday, Poland’s Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak told commercial radio RMF FM about the situation at the border: he must be prepared, as can be inferred from the Belarusian behavior, the hybrid offensive will continue for several months. The minister said that the Belarusian regime will survive only with the support of the Kremlin.
After a large-scale border blockade at Kuznica Bialostock on Tuesday, Blaszczak said, Lukashenko is looking for other ways to attack. He pointed out that it is possible for migrants to besiege the Ukrainian border after it has been proven that the Polish border is impenetrable.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 34,000 attempted border violations have been recorded at the Polish-Belarusian border. Poland estimates that three to four thousand migrants may be on the Belarusian side of the border, where some camp sites have already been abandoned and others have been beaten. Thousands of other foreigners are said to be in the interior of Belarus after the first plane carrying some 400 migrants left for Iraq this week.
Poland will build a five-meter-high steel wall on its common border with Belarus by the middle of next year. The border area is in a state of emergency until the end of November.
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