Putin accuses Poland of ‘using pesticides against refugees at border’

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the depoliticization of the refugee situation on the Polish-Belarusian border and against the use of pesticides and other chemicals in the water, in which he claimed that the Polish authorities were spraying people. Francesco Roca Red Cross.

“It is not allowed to splash people not only with water, but also to mix pesticides and herbicides in this water in order to cause burns and other serious damage to these migrants, including women and young children. “It’s not in line with the principles of humanitarian treatment of migrants. How many people have already died at the border and been buried there. Burials are done almost every day. This is just a disaster. Russian president, with Francesco Roca answering that he fully shares his concerns about the disagreements in Europe over the refugee problem.

The Russian president stressed that there are no flows of migrants to Europe through Russian territory and called on the Red Cross to continue to adhere to its firm principles, the depoliticization of the situation, as the problem is widespread.

“There are about 5,000 migrants in Belarus. 54,000 have passed through Italy this year. Do we not now see a crisis on the border between France and Britain and mutual accusations between these countries?” Vladimir Putin asked. “I always draw attention to this in discussions with colleagues from European countries and I hope that the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border will gradually ease and return to normal, although of course there are still people whose fate has not been determined.”

The Russian president expressed his special concern for young children, as “it is impossible to look calmly when you see that in conditions already almost winter they are forced to spend the night in the countryside” and described the action of the International Committee of the Red Cross and cooperation with his organizations in Belarus and Russia to end the suffering of the people.

President Putin has pledged all possible assistance to the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent during his lengthy and very heated talks with Francesco Roca and reiterated his support for the Belarussian government, saying “it does everything in its power. persuading people to return voluntarily to their places of permanent residence, to their homeland and, first of all, to Iraq, but we need to, in the most careful and appropriate way, monitor what is happening at the border and what the authorities of the neighboring state are doing, in our case Poland “.

Putin praised the Red Cross action “extremely important for all of humanity, especially now, in the face of the pandemic,” as well as the fundamental principles of the international voluntary movement, humanity and neutrality, which knows no borders, while Rota exposed areas of action of the international organization both in the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border through its branch in Minsk, and worldwide. He also referred to the need for “fair access to vaccination” especially in the most vulnerable countries and populations of the world, with the first refugees and migrants, including the provision of free Russian vaccines Sputnik, which he discussed with the Russian government in the relevant program, the implementation of which was supported by the Kremlin leader.

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