According to the service, on Saturday, the officers of the Puškai border checkpoint of the VSAT Vilnius border team recorded two persons who ran to the border from the Belarusian side near the Zarasai district through the surveillance system.
They wore camouflage clothing and covered their faces with masks. After jumping to the physical barrier installed on the Lithuanian side, near the state border, the two men started cutting a veritable concertina roll on the ground with the tools they had brought, and later – a protective fence.
The information from the monitoring center located in the Puška fortress was transmitted to the closest patrolling VSAT officers. At that time, the men invited ten migrants who were nearby, and they themselves fled back to Belarus.
According to VSAT, when the border guards appeared, one migrant who managed to enter Lithuania ran back, the other nine did not pass the physical barrier damaged by the Belarusians. All ten illegal migrants left for Belarus.
In total, this year VSAT recorded 85 attempts to deliberately damage the physical barrier installed on the border with Belarus. Last year there were 467 such cases.
This year, VSAT officials prevented a total of 2,473 illegal migrants from Belarus from entering Lithuania in unauthorized places.
Since August 3, 2021, when Lithuanian border guards gained the right to turn illegal migrants, more than 21.8 thousand of them have not been allowed to enter the country from Belarus. Some foreigners tried to enter Lithuania more than once.
The influx of migrants to the eastern members of the European Union from Belarus started in 2021, and the West blames the Minsk regime for it. At that time, almost 4.2 thousand people arrived illegally from Belarus to Lithuania. migrants, but most of them left the country after the end of movement restrictions.
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2024-08-18 06:40:24
