Poland is set to receive a 250m-euro loan from the World Bank to help households replace coal heating and insulate their homes, the bank said on Thursday. Cloud is a major problem in Poland, as coal-fired households are responsible for much of the country’s air pollution, which the World Bank estimates kills 46,000 Poles each […]
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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, […]
Iraq: Two repatriated flights of migrants stranded between Poland and Belarus
Iraq announced today that it will organize two new repatriation flights of migrants stranded on the border between Belarus and Poland, a week after the return of about 400 people, mostly Iraqi Kurds. The Ministry of Transport organized two special flights for tonight. According to the announcement, the two planes departed from Baghdad International Airport […]
Lukashenko: Minsk does not seek conflict with Poland, which could lead to war
Belarus does not want a conflict with Poland, but is waiting for a response from Brussels on whether the European Union will accept 2,000 migrants trapped on the Belarusian border, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko was quoted as saying by the Belta news agency. Mr Lukashenko also said Belarus would ask Germany to welcome migrants, adding […]
Poland-Belarus crisis: ‘Europe’s biggest attempt to destabilize’, Polish PM says
LAST UPDATE: 15.10 Polish Prime Minister Matthew Morawiecki today called the migration crisis on the border between Poland and Belarus, the EU’s eastern border, “the biggest attempt to destabilize Europe” since the Cold War. “Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has launched a hybrid war against the EU. It is the biggest attempt to destabilize Europe in […]
Poland: Attempts by migrants to cross the border into Belarus have decreased, but continue
Groups of migrants again attempted to cross the Belarus-Poland border overnight, Polish Defense Minister Marius Blazak said in an interview with RMF FM. “There were attacks on the Polish border. Now, the migrants are using slightly different methods. Smaller groups of people are trying to cross by force from many places,” the minister said, noting […]
Poland complains: Belarus transports migrants by truck and forces them to cross
Poland today accused Belarus of smuggling hundreds of migrants back to the border and forcing them to try to cross them illegally, just hours after the evacuation of their main border camps. This accusation from Poland makes it clear that a seemingly change of attitude this week from Minsk has not yet led to a […]
Immigrants are still trying to ‘invade’ Poland from Belarus
Immigrants were still trying to cross the border from Belarus overnight and cross into Polish territory, albeit in smaller numbers and smaller groups, the Polish authorities announced today, a day after the evacuation of the main border camps in which had gathered people from the Middle East. Yesterday’s evacuation of these makeshift camps and the […]
Immigrants still trying to enter Poland – ‘Belarus helps them’
Immigrants were still trying to cross the border into Belarus overnight, but in smaller numbers and mainly in smaller groups, Polish authorities said on Friday, a day after Belarus cleared the main settlements and relocated them to warehouses. The clearing of the camp on Thursday, and the first return flight to Iraq in months, was […]
Belarus-Poland: Two migrant camps in Bruges were evacuated
Immigrants trapped on the border between Belarus and Poland fled the two camps near Brugeski, and many were taken by Belarusian authorities to warehouses far from the spot. Thousands of migrants set up makeshift camps last week, and many tried to cross into Poland from various locations amid escalating tensions with Polish security forces trying […]
