“We & nbsp; are considering steps in & nbsp; the form of increasingly serious economic sanctions, including the closure of the Polish-Belarusian border by Poland & nbspquo ;, & nbsp; & mdash; he said, stressing that & nbsp; everything will depend on the & nbsp; actions of the Belarusian authorities.
“ We & nbsp; want to give [President of Belarus Alexander] Lukashenko a chance to retreat and & nbsp; bring to & nbsp; the return of migrants to & nbsp; their countries & nbsp; of origin & nbsp; & nbsp; & mdash; added Morawiecki, recalling that & nbsp; while Poland had decided to & nbsp; close only one border checkpoint in & nbsp; Kuznica.
“ But & nbsp; migrants have not yet & nbsp; returned '', & nbsp; & mdash; emphasized the head of the Polish government, making & nbsp; statement that & nbsp; the Polish side has a video, which shows how the Belarusian services are instructing migrants & nbsp; on how to attack the Polish security forces. “ This means that & nbsp; actions of the Belarusian services can lead to & nbsp; escalation '', & nbsp; & mdash; added Morawiecki.
“We are & nbsp; ready to close new crossings, to close transit and & nbsp; trade opportunities in order to exert economic pressure”, & nbsp; & mdash; said & nbsp; he.
“ Today, on & nbsp; our eastern border, the eastern border of Poland, we & nbsp; are dealing with & nbsp; a new type of war, in which & nbsp; weapons are migrants, disinformation, we are dealing with & nbsp; hybrid war & raquo;, & nbsp; & mdash; said Moravetsky, accusing the & nbsp; powers of Belarus and & nbsp; Russia.
According to him, in addition to the growing migration crisis, the threat to the eastern borders of the EU and NATO is “an artificially provoked energy crisis” and “the growing military activity of Russia in Ukraine.”
The crisis on the & nbsp; border of Belarus with & nbsp; Latvia, Lithuania and & nbsp; Poland, where migrants have rushed from the beginning of the year, sharply escalated on November 8 & nbsp;. Several thousand people came from the & nbsp; Belarusian side to the & nbsp; Polish border and & nbsp; do not & nbsp; leave the border zone, some of them tried to get into & nbsp; the territory of Poland, breaking the barbed wire fence.
Countries & nbsp; The EU blame the EU. in & nbsp; deliberate escalation of the crisis and & nbsp; call for & nbsp; imposition of sanctions. Lukashenka declares that & nbsp; in this situation the Western countries themselves are to blame, because of whose actions people are fleeing the & nbsp; war.