Lithuanian Pogoganovhran announced the shots on the territory of Belarus in the border area. This is reported by TASS with reference to the National Radio LRT.
It is noted that on Saturday afternoon, on August 7, Lithuanian border guards heard shots from the adjacent side of the border on the territory of Belarus. After sunset, they also noticed lighting and signal missiles in the sky.
Earlier in August, Lithuanian President doubted the possibility of improving relations with Belorussia. According to him, the position of Lithuania is stacked in the general direction of the EU line. “EU, Lithuania and other Member States will be united in a clear answer to the policy that the Belarusian regime holds,” Bested said.
Since the beginning of this year, over four thousand illegal migrants are detained at the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, which is 50 times more than in the entire past year. At the end of May 2021, the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, noted that the Republic served as a barrier on the way of transferring illegal migrants to the neighboring country, however, according to the political pressure of the West, Minsk can think about whether to continue to do this.