On June 10, Mohammad Elias Safi, a 47-year-old Afghan, went to Kabul’s airport to catch a flight to Moscow.
From the Russian capital, he travelled “sometimes by walking, sometimes by car,” to try and reach the Belarus-Lithuania border.
Al Jazeera: In Lithuania, a refugee crisis blamed on Belarus is brewing
Migrants are seen through fences as they sit on the ground in a camp near the border town of Kapciamiestis, Lithuania, on July 18, 2021. - Lithuania has seen more than 2,000 arrivals since the start of the year across the border from Belarus. Most of the migrants are from Iraq and Lithuanian officials suspect the influx is being orchestrated by the Russia-backed Belarusian regime as retaliation against EU sanctions.
