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Nov 17 2021
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‘Not Refugees’: Polish Government Fact-Checks CNN on Belarus-Engineered Migrant Crisis
Poland’s national-conservative government has fact-checked CNN on the migrant crisis engineered on the European Union’s eastern border by Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus.
Stanisław Żaryn, spokesman for the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services at National Security Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, admonished CNN after it published an
Breitbart Fact CheckNov 11 2021
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‘We became like a chicken in a cage,’ a migrant says, trapped between Belarus and Poland.
Exhausted, freezing and exposed to the elements, Bayar Awat, his wife and infant daughter have been stuck on the Belarusian side of the Polish border for more than a week after leaving their homes in a desperate gambit to reach the European Union.
One of several thousand migrants from Iraq’s Kurdistan region at the Belarus border, Mr. Awat said that he knew Belarus was using migrants
New York Times (News)Jun 23 2022
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Daily Caller Reporter Describes Meeting Migrants At The Border From ‘Belarus, Russia, Even Afghanistan’
The Daily Caller’s Jorge Ventura joined Laura Ingraham to discuss the crisis at the southern border Tuesday night, noting agents are overwhelmed as the situation worsens.
“Here in the Yuma sector we have migrants coming from outside of the northern triangle countries,” Ventura explained. “We’ve met so far migrants from Belarus, Russia, even Afghanistan, India, Peru, Brazil, all coming
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Poland To Reinforce Intelligence Services Over Russia Threat
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday announced that the EU and NATO member would boost its intelligence services amid sabotage attempts and concerns over neighbouring Russia. The announcement comes days after a Polish judge, Tomasz Szmydt, fled to neighbouring Belarus -- a Russian ally -- and reportedly asked for asylum. He is now under investigation for espionage. "I took the decision
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Belarus faces international fury after using fighter jet to land airliner, seize journalist
"Piracy," "hijacking" and "state terrorism" — the condemnation of Belarus was swift and strong after it forced the landing of a commercial airplane carrying an opposition journalist.
In a show of unified fury, the United States, Britain, the European Union, NATO and the United Nations on Monday lined up to call out the action in the skies above the eastern European country led by
NBC News DigitalFeb 09 2022
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Fears of Ukraine invasion rise as top Russian commanders fly to Belarus for massive joint military drill
Top Russian military commanders flew into neighboring Belarus on Wednesday for a massive joint military exercise amid Western alarm that it could provide cover for a multipronged invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s chief of the armed forces’ General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, arrived in Belarus ahead of a 10-day drill beginning Thursday, as senior Russian Foreign Ministry officials accused
Washington PostNov 16 2021
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Violence erupts on Poland-Belarus border as Polish guards fire water cannon on migrants throwing rocks
Violence erupted at the Poland-Belarus border on Tuesday, as migrants desperate to cross into the European Union threw stones at Polish border guards who responded with water cannon and tear gas.
Polish and Belarusian authorities have blamed one another for the ratcheting of tensions on the border, where thousands of people have traveled in the hope of making it into the EU only to find
CNN DigitalApr 13 2024
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Putin's key ally reveals why he hasn't launched Ukraine invasion
Alexander Lukashenko has rejected the prospect of Belarus entering the war in Ukraine started by his closest ally, Vladimir Putin, because that would "play into NATO's hands." Lukashenko has relied on Putin to maintain power in Minsk following disputed presidential elections in 2020 and while he has allowed the Russian president to use Belarus as a springboard for offensives into Ukraine, he
NewsweekJun 21 2021
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Biden administration slaps sanctions on Belarus after it forcibly diverted passenger jet to arrest opposition journalist
The Biden administration slapped a slew of sanctions against Belarus on Monday amid Western fury over the forced diversion of a Ryanair flight to arrest an opposition journalist.
Last month, a passenger plane flying from Greece to Lithuania was suddenly diverted to Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The Ryanair flight was escorted to Minsk by a Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jet. Upon landing,
CNBCApr 22 2024
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Poland 'Ready' To Have Nuclear Weapons On Its Territory: President
Poland is ready to host nuclear arms if NATO decides to deploy the weapons in the face of Russia reinforcing its armaments in Belarus and Kaliningrad, President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published on Monday.
"If our allies decide to deploy nuclear arms on our territory as part of nuclear sharing, to reinforce NATO's eastern flank, we are ready to do so," Duda said in an
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