Attempts by Belarus to destabilize the EU by facilitating illegal immigration into member states show that western sanctions against Minsk are working and its pariah dictator Alexander Lukashenko is “desperate”, the bloc’s top migration official has said.
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A car of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX) is seen through a carglas as they patrol the border separating Lithuania (R) and Belarus, near Kapciamiestis, Lithuania, on July 18, 2021.