He denies inviting migrants to Belarus in order to provoke the crisis as an act of retaliation for sanctions imposed on his country
Amid a border crisis that has left thousands of migrants stranded between Belarus and Poland, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
the BBC on Friday his forces may have helped the migrants into the European Union, though he denies inviting them to Belarus in order to provoke the crisis as an act of retaliation for sanctions imposed on his country.... [+] central Minsk, on August 16, 2020. - The Belarusian strongman, who has ruled his ex-Soviet country with an iron grip since 1994, is under increasing pressure from the streets and abroad over his claim to have won re-election on August 9, with 80 percent of the vote. Lukashenko said “maybe someone helped” the migrants get to the border, though he said he refuses to look into the claim.
He said he told the EU he would not detain the migrants at the border because “they’re not coming to my country, they’re going to yours.” At least 2,000 migrants, mostly from the Middle East, are stranded at the border between the two countries, with some forced to remain outdoors in harsh conditions before being moved to a logistics warehouse nearby.
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