UK, Russia envoys on Poland-Belarus border crisis

Members of the UN Security Council were meeting on Thursday to discuss the escalating migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border.

Groups of migrants again tried to push into Poland from neighboring Belarus, Polish authorities said.

Poland’s Defense Ministry also accused Belarusian forces of firing shots into the air in a border area where migrants caught between the neighboring countries have set up a makeshift camp.

The ministry posted a video on Twitter  with noises of what sounded like shots.

This week has seen a dramatic culmination following months of heavy migration by people from the Middle East seeking to enter Poland, Lithuania and to a lesser degree Latvia, all on the bloc’s eastern border.

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