State media show migrants in Belarus centre at border

Migrants continued to gather Sunday near the border between Belarus and Poland, Belarus media reported.

They broadcast video showing what they said were migrants sheltering in a logistics centre in a village near the frontier.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday promised food and warm clothing to migrants who opt to stay at the border with Poland rather than return to their country of origin.

Since 8 November a large group of people, mostly from the Middle East, have been stranded there as the two countries face off against each other.

Many aim to reach Germany or other Western European countries.

The West has accused the Lukashenko regime of luring thousands of migrants to Belarus with the promise of help to get to Western Europe, using them as pawns to destabilise the bloc.

Belarus denies engineering the crisis.

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