European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday called on member states to impose new sanctions against Belarus, alleging the country is responsible for an influx of migrants at the Polish border.
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Polish police posted video early Tuesday showing a group of migrants who had camped overnight just on the far side of Poland's eastern border in Belarus. Polish riot police and coils of razor wire faced the migrants and police said the situation overnight was calm.
That followed a day of heavy tensions on the border, where a large group of migrants – hundreds if not thousands of people mostly from the Middle East and encouraged by Belarus – sought to illegally push their way into Poland.
The use "of migrants for political purposes is unacceptable," she said, adding that the EU would also look at how to sanction "third-country airlines" that bring migrants to Belarus. The EU accused Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko of weaponizing migrant flows in retaliation for sanctions imposed by Brussels, an accusation the leader denies.
