Widows of European borders As migrants imperceptibly die on the border of the EU and Belarus. Transfer of reporting Unbias The News Since 2021, a quiet humanitarian disaster has been unfolding on the borders of the EU and Belarus: dozens of people trying to get to Poland and Lithuania die in impassable forests, where border guards are forced to bother them. The exact number of victims is unknown, only volunteers keep accounting. They help to look for the bodies of the dead.