Minister ‘stands in solidarity with Poland’ over migrant crisis on Belarus border
Conservative MP Wendy Morton has said she “stands in solidarity with Poland” over a migrant crisis allegedly “engineered” by the Belarusian government.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for European Neighbourhood and the Americas said via Twitter: “The UK stands in solidarity with Poland – the migrant crisis engineered by the Lukashenko regime is the latest in a series of abhorrent attempts to undermine our European partners. We have imposed successive sanctions and will continue to hold the regime to account.”
Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki has accused Belarus’s authoritarian leader of sending migrants to the Polish border due to his fury at EU sanctions.
Around 2,000 migrants remain at the border where there are currently sub-zero temperatures.
A former Lukashenko regime insider has claimed Belarus has deliberately trained Afghan and Iraqi war veterans to carry out armed attacks on the border with Poland.
