(AFP) Poland has welcomed two million refugees from war-torn Ukraine at lightning speed and with open arms. Yet just north of that border, the EU member continues to push back those crossing from Belarus.
Since last summer, thousands of migrants and refugees — mostly from the Middle East — have come knocking only to be turned away by Poland, which sees their arrival as a kind of “hybrid warfare.”
Warsaw and others in the West have accused the Belarusian regime of orchestrating the influx by promising an easy entry into the EU in an operation backed by Moscow.
Minsk has repeatedly denied the charge.
The attempted crossings have lately been overshadowed by the war in Ukraine.
