“We are ready to use an ‘escalation ladder,’ which means closing more [border] crossings, shutting down transit and trade opportunities, in order to exert economic pressure on the Lukashenko regime,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said during his trip to Estonia on Sunday. Morawiecki said his country had already decided …
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A message unveiling the move published on the bank’s website on Monday explained that its chairman Professor Adam Glapinski had “decided to issue a collectible coin and banknote dedicated to the protection of the Polish eastern border in an accelerated and emergency basis.” According to the notice, Warsaw’s bank has …
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Warsaw’s refusal to provide access to a place that requires the attention of the press is “clearly violating European standards for media freedom,” said Ricardo Gutierrez, general secretary of the European Federation of Journalists. The arrest of RT France journalists “was an act of censorship by the Polish government,” he …
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Reporters David Khalifa and cameraman Jordi Demory were taken into custody after a single live broadcast from the scene, RT France said. They reported that the Polish police showed an “unfriendly” attitude towards them. “On several occasions they asked us to leave and not to film,” Khalifa said of the …
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“There is no doubt that things have gone too far,” Morawiecki told the Polish PAP news agency on Sunday, adding that “words alone are not enough to stop” Minsk, which Warsaw has accused of orchestrating the border crisis. The prime minister also revealed that he and the leaders of Latvia …
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Regional police spokesperson Tomasz Krupa said 50 people crossed the border “by force” near the village of Starzyn shortly after 8pm local time on Saturday. Police detained 22 would-be asylum seekers, all of whom are Iraqi nationals, he added. The Polish Border Guard later said all of the 50 intruders …
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“I want everyone to know this. We have absolutely nothing to do with any of this,” Putin vowed, commenting on accusations that Russia was somehow involved in the ongoing conflict between Minsk and EU members. “They are trying to shift the responsibility to us at the slightest pretext or even …
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One soldier had reportedly tried to save the other until the last moment with the help of his reserve parachute, the ministry added, but the system did not have time to perform due to the low altitude. The incident unfolded during a simulated airborne operation near the Belarusian city of Grodno. …
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Speaking at a meeting of ministers in Minsk on Thursday, Lukashenko “noted that a dangerous pattern has emerged whereby there are attempts to transfer weapons and ammunition to migrant encampments on the border with Poland to provoke a conflict,” an official statement reads. According to the Belarusian leader, the guns, which …
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Speaking before the European Parliament on Wednesday, the UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said the bloc must set an example on how to handle migration, slamming the “xenophobic discourse” on show by some of its members. “These challenges simply do not justify the knee-jerk reaction we have seen …
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