Lithuanian Foreign Ministry: among illegal migrants on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border there are Russian citizens

The Russians were among the illegal migrants who tried to enter Lithuania through Belarus. about this on the air of Ekho Moskvy . spoke Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania Mantas Adomenas

“We also had a dialogue with representatives of the Russian Federation, because there are also Russian citizens there who crossed the border. We will return them too. This process will take some time, we hope that the countries will be interested in this so that their citizens do not end up in tents in the Lithuanian winter at minus 20,” he said.

Last Sunday, the Lithuanian border service detained 289 people who were illegally traveling from Belarus - this is the highest figure for 2021, and in total this year more than 4,000 Belarusian migrants crossed the border. Lithuanian Prime Minister Simonyte said that this is a "hybrid aggression" on the part of Lukashenka.

Today, the European Union's external border security agency (Frontex) recorded that some groups of illegal migrants were accompanied to the border by a car resembling the departmental transport of the Belarusian military. It happened in the Shalcininks region in southeastern Lithuania.

Mediazona, Scanner Project and LRT conducted an investigation stating that Belarus has an organized system for taking migrants to the Lithuanian border and a business built on transporting citizens from the Middle East to Belarus.