Attacks on Polish Border: Belarusian Security Forces Use New Tactics

During the day, migrants went 267 times to storm Polish border posts.

The tense situation on the Belarusian-Polish border remains.

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said that the Belarusian authorities have changed the method of attack on the Polish border. Migrants now attack in different places in small groups, and the Belarusian special services began to operate openly.

The Charter97.org website has collected the main news about what is happening on the border of Belarus and Poland.

13:10 While breaking through the border under the control of the Belarusian special services, illegal immigrants threw stones and pieces of wood at the Polish military. One of the soldiers received a head injury, said a spokeswoman for the Polish Border Guard Service, Anna Michalska.

13:00 Lukashists held a family of migrants hostage for 22 days. The people were brutally abused, tortured all the time, and the women were beaten in front of the children. The men's fingers were twisted off with pliers.

12:37 Night intervention of Polish police prevented the night breakthrough of the border by aggressive migrants in the Starzyna area. One of the illegal immigrants was taken to the hospital with a leg injury.

12:30 Yesterday evening, there were two forceful attempts to cross the Polish border in the Melnik area. Groups of aggressive foreigners, 40 in each, attacked the Polish border guards, throwing stones, tree trunks, and stun grenades were also used.

12:02 The Polish border service published a video in which the Belarusian security forces openly stand at the place where an aggressive group of migrants had just tried to break through the border with Poland. Some have weapons in their hands.

11:19 Yesterday at about 19.00, a group of more than 100 aggressive foreigners tried to storm the Polish border by force. Stones were thrown at the Polish border guards. The attack took place under the supervision of the Belarusian special services.

10:49 According to the estimates of European officials, there are about 15 thousand migrants in Belarus now; among them, more than 2000 are at the borders of the European Union.

More than 40 thousand attempts to cross the EU borders have been prevented.

10:45 Illegals dug a whole network of trenches and dugouts on the border.

10.17 During the day, migrants under the leadership of the Belarusian special services stormed the Polish border 267 times.

The most aggressive groups operated in the area of Melnik and Dubicze Cerkiewne.

9.52 Due to provocations from the Belarusian side, Poland transferred the Iron Division to the border.

New territorial defense brigades have also been created in the east of the country.

This was stated by Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.

8.59 The Polish police showed how the night went at the border near the migrant base.

All Polish services are on duty.

8.12 The head of the Polish Ministry of Defense, Mariusz Blaszczak, said that the Belarusian authorities had changed the method of attack on the Polish border.

Now “there are many small groups that invade the Polish border, the Belarusian special services are already acting openly, which undoubtedly support migrants and encourage them to cross the borders illegally.”