UK Foreign Office: Russia must put pressure on Belarus and end the migration crisis
crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. She wrote about this in a column published in the newspaper The Sunday Telegraph, reports TASS.
“Russia must put pressure on the authorities of Belarus to end the crisis and start a dialogue,” says Truss. According to her, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is using desperate migrants as pawns in an attempt to create instability. Elizabeth Truss believes that Lukashenka “clings to power, not paying attention to the humanitarian consequences.”
The Foreign Minister also stressed the readiness of the British military to help the Polish authorities.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin called causes of the migration crisis in Europe. According to the Russian leader, the situation on the Belarusian-Polish border is conditioned by military and economic factors.