Posted on 11/04/2021 11:44:23 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Belarusian soldiers threatened to open fire on Polish troops just across the border, the Polish Defence Ministry said on Thursday, while Belarus summoned Poland's charge d'affaires amid a row over migrants on their common frontier.
Warsaw and the European Union accuse Belarus of deliberately encouraging illegal migrants to enter Poland and other EU states via Belarusian territory as a means to put pressure on the bloc over sanctions. Belarus has repeatedly denied this.
Poland has declared a state of emergency in the border region. It has put up a barbed wire fence on the border and plans to build a wall.
"Yesterday...Polish soldiers located a group of around 250 migrants near the fence," the Polish Defence Ministry said on Twitter. "The Belarusian soldiers guarding them, threatened to open fire at our soldiers."
The Polish soldiers "did not allow themselves to be provoked" and as a result the situation did not escalate further, the ministry added.
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