“During the & nbsp; crisis [President of Belarus] Alexander Lukashenko behaves like a tour operator without & nbsp; a license, which sells packages to expensive tour packages ; EU, which then on & nbsp; arrival disappear by themselves & raquo;, & nbsp; & mdash; she stated in & nbsp; published in & nbsp; Sunday interview with the German newspaper Welt am & nbsp; Sonntag. “ Families and & nbsp; children were deceived, they were & nbsp; dragged into & nbsp; a tragedy that led to & nbsp; great suffering & nbsp; & nbsp; & mdash; Johansson said. According to & nbsp; her version, Lukashenko and & nbsp; the authorities in & nbsp; Minsk “ bear extra responsibility for the & nbsp; created crisis. ''
The crisis on & nbsp; the border of Belarus with & nbsp; Latvia, Lithuania and & nbsp; migrants, sharply escalated on November 8 & nbsp; Several thousand people came from the & nbsp; Belarusian side to the & nbsp; Polish border, some of them tried to get into & nbsp; the territory of Poland, breaking the barbed wire fence. November 16 & nbsp; next to & nbsp; checkpoint “ Bruzgi '' several groups of migrants broke through the Belarusian fence and started throwing stones and wooden sticks at the Polish security forces. In the & nbsp; response, the Polish police began to detonate stun grenades, turned on water cannons, spraying water with & nbsp; tears.
EU countries accuse Minsk of deliberately escalating the crisis. Lukashenka declares that & nbsp; in this situation are the fault of the Western countries themselves, because of whose actions people are fleeing the & nbsp; war.