A first team of six guards from the European Union’s border agency Frontex began working in Lithuania on July 2, as the Baltic state reported another sharp rise in migrants and refugees arriving from Belarus amid simmering tensions between the bloc and Minsk.
Al Jazeera: EU border guards sent to Lithuania amid Belarus migrant crisis
Belarus border guards are seen patrolling behind the border fence during a protest action of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) against the arbitrary detention of Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich and nearly twenty other reporters, at the Lithuanian-Belarus border in Salcininkai, Lithuania on May 27, 2021.
