Lithuanian border guards turned back no illegal migrants on Saturday, VSAT says
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- Lithuanian border guards did not turn back any illegal migrants from Belarus on Saturday, according to the State Border Guard Service.
- Latvia reported preventing 25 illegal migrants from entering, while Polish officials reported no such cases.
- Lithuania has turned away about 26,000 illegal migrants since the migration crisis linked to Belarus began.
Lithuanian border guards did not turn back a single illegal migrant at the border with Belarus during the previous day, the State Border Guard Service said.
At the same time, Latviaโs border service, which is facing a large influx of illegal migrants, prevented 25 people from entering the country on Saturday. Polish officials reported that they continued to record no such cases.
Lithuanian officials prevented more than 1,600 people from entering through unauthorized locations from Belarus last year and 1,392 this year. Since the migration crisis began, Lithuania has turned away about 26,000 illegal migrants.
Migrants began arriving in large numbers in the eastern European Union countries in 2021. Western governments blamed the Minsk regime for the flow.
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