The European Union’s border agency says it will deploy 60 guards next week to monitor Lithuania’s frontier amid an influx of migrants crossing illegally from Belarus, a move seen as revenge by Minsk after the bloc imposed a new round of sanctions on Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s repressive regime.
Protests in Belarus
RFE/RL: EU agency to help Lithuania amid surge in migrants from Belarus
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.
