The Government estimated the number of refugees on the border with Poland in two thousand people. Such a number called the First Deputy Chairman of the Program Member of the Republic of Igor Butkevich, writes RIA Novosti.
It is reported that citizens of different nationalities and states are in the Belarusian-Polish border. Butkevich noted that Minsk, in turn, is trying to provide migrants with firewood, water and other humanitarian aid.
As the official said, refugees seek to get to the territory of the European Union, but for certain circumstances they are not allowed.
Earlier in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the causes of the migration crisis in Europe. According to the Russian leader, the situation in the Belarusian-Polish border is due to military and economic factors.
Since the beginning of 2021, people began to flow to the border of Belarus with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The crisis sharply aggravated on November 8 after several thousand people approached the border of Poland from the Belarusian side. They do not leave the border zone, part tried on November 10 to get to the territory of Poland, breaking the barbed barbed wire.