Peskov: it is wrong to place all the blame in the situation on the border of Belarus and Poland on Lukashenka the border of Belarus and Poland on the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. Thus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stood up for the president, TASS reports.
According to him, in general, the migration crisis that has arisen between the states is also not created by Lukashenka.
“Yes, they are arriving. , using the visa-free regime, they want to get asylum in Europe, they are not given. They are not allowed in, but the people who fly there know very well that in cases with other countries they have accepted migrants, “the press secretary explained.
On November 14, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in a conversation with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau said that the crisis with migrants in Belarus is an attempt by Lukashenka to divert attention from Russia's actions on the border with Ukraine.
Since the beginning of 2021, people began to flock to the border of Belarus with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The crisis escalated sharply on November 8 after several thousand people approached the Polish border from the Belarusian side. They do not leave the border zone, some of them tried to enter the territory of Poland, breaking the barbed wire fence.