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Linas Jegelevičius for the BNN Lithuanian has announced this week a state of emergency along the nearly 680-kilometre border stretch with Belarus and five kilometres inland, as well as in the migrant accommodation facilities in Kybartai, Medininkai, Pabradė, Rukla and Vilnius. Lithuania and other Western countries accuse the Minsk regime of orchestrating the unprecedented migration […]

As part of state of emergency, migrants who entered Lithuania and were accommodated in the country will be stripped of right to communicate in writing vie e-mails or by cell phones, except for the possibility to contact the country’s authorities.

While some high-ranking EU officials said that the authoritarian Belarusian regime «weaponises» migrants on the EU’s borders, European home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson told MEPs in the Civil Liberties Committee on Tuesday, November 9, that, likely, Brussels will demand Poland, Latvia and Lithuania change recent migration laws in response to the ongoing Belarus border confrontation.

Over 4,200 irregular migrants have crossed into Lithuania from Belarus illegally so far this year.