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Situation calm on Polish-Belarusian border overnight – Polish police
WARSAW. Nov 9 (Interfax) – The situation on the Polish-Belarusian border was relatively calm overnight, police in Podlaskie Voivodeship in eastern Poland said.
"The night was relatively calm on the border. Just a stone was pelted at a police vehicle," the police said on Twitter.
The police attached a video to the post showing a heavy-duty barbed-wire fence on the border and a line of fully equipped Polish police officers, as well as tents and campfires in the adjacent area.
Warnings are made in English through loudspeakers on the Polish-Belarusian border.
Pictures and video taken overnight show powerful floodlights beaming from Polish territory in the direction of the border.
In turn, Belarusian Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakov said that no violations were recorded on the part of migrants. "No legal violations on the part of migrants were registered. They’re remaining in Belarusian territory legally," the Belarusian state-run news agency BelTA quoted Kubrakov as saying on Tuesday.
The situation on the Belarusian-Polish border deteriorated after a large number of migrants trying to get to the European Union gathered on the Belarusian side of the border on Monday. Polish officials have called the current border situation the most complicated since the border crisis began.
Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia have seen a growing number of illegal migrants trying to get through Belarus to the EU of late. The EU has accused Belarus of creating chaos near EU borders, as it does not allow migrants back into its territory after they are denied entry to the EU.
Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia have accused the Belarusian authorities of organizing migrant flows to the EU, calling it hybrid aggression. The European Commission shares this stance.