" Check-in is as simplified as possible," Polish Border Guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska said

WARSAW( Reuters)-A group of around 200 migrants tried to break through the fence on the Polish-Belarus border on Wednesday evening, the Border Guard said on Thursday, as tensions simmer in a crisis regional powers have warned could spill into a wider conflict. The incident near the village of Czeremcha was one of the daily confrontations between groups of migrants under the supervision of Belarusian soldiers and Polish forces, which the European Union says is part of a" hybrid war" Minsk designe

WARSAW( Reuters)-Poland summoned the Belarusian charge d' affaires on Friday, a foreign ministry spokesman said, after border guards accused the Belarusian side of shooting at Polish soldiers patrolling the frontier. Poland has imposed a state of emergency on the Belarusian border amid a surge in migrants from countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq trying to cross, in what Brussels and Warsaw say is a form of hybrid warfare designed to put pressure on the bloc over sanctions it imposed on Minsk.

WARSAW( Reuters)-Poland is increasing the number of troops on its border with Belarus to around 10, 000, its defence minister said on Monday, as the country tries to stem a surge in migration which it blames on Minsk. Hundreds of people from places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa have been trying to cross the border illegally every day, and Poland has beefed up security in the region, brushing aside criticism that it is treating the migrants inhumanely." We are increasing the number of soldier

As people approach the Polish border they will get a message that warns them of a state of emergency in the country.... It reads:" The Polish border is sealed.... BLR authorities told you lies." Go back to Minsk!...

It blamed the breakdown in border cooperation on the EU.... They have had nothing to eat since yesterday," it said." Fifty-two-year-old Mrs.... Gul will soon die in front of her five children....

MOSCOW — Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said he has taken steps to de-escalate a months-long border migrant crisis on the Polish border in a call Friday morning with his closest supporter, Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin press service.Wp Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight The months-long crisis has worsened tensions between Europe and Belarus, with clashes earlier in the week when Polish border guards used water cannons to repel stone-throwing

SUCEAVA, Romania--Elena Yurchuk saw families with children blown up and the hospital she worked in reduced to rubble during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.“ I don’t know if I have a home or not," said the 44-year-old nurse from the northern Ukrainian town of Chernihiv.... Some heard explosions as they passed through a western region of Ukraine near Lviv in the area where Russian missiles pounded a military training base, killing at least 35 people.“ When I went through Lviv there was an explosion

The EU Commission President said last week that" there will be no funding of barbed wire and walls", after being urged by 12 member states to issue EU funds for the project.... But Mrs von der Leyen is still under pressure to cave as the number of migrants coming from Belarus to the bloc fails to subdue. The leader of the European People's Party in the EU Parliament, Manfred Weber, is the latest to call on the Commission chief to change tactics on the issue.He told Politico: “ For the EPP group

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said thousands of people stranded on the European Union's eastern border represent an attempt by Belarus to destabilise the bloc, rather than a migrant crisis, and as such call for a coordinated response. She told the European Parliament on Tuesday that the 27-nation bloc was standing in solidarity with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, who are bearing the brunt of what the EU says is President Alexander Lukashenko's ploy to engineer a crisis by flying in