CNSDU Secretary Oleksiy Danylov said at a press briefing, “It was the key issue of today’s meeting of the Council. All relevant departments and ministries have already been given specific instructions soon to be formalized as biding legislation.”
Responding to the current explosive situation, Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky has assured that Ukraine is going to tighten security measures to protect the state border from the penetration of migrants. “We are prepared to address scenarios similar to those which are unfolding at the Polish-Belarusian border,” Monastyrsky noted and stressed the importance of the decision made by the CNSDU’s meeting to increase the presence of the State Border Guard Service at the joint border with Belarus.
According to Yevhen Yenin, the first deputy of the Interior Minister, the situation at the border is under control. Yenin said, “Our neighbors have to realize that Ukrainian borders are well prepared for such provocations. We’ve discussed possible avenues that migrants may use to get to the territory of Ukraine.”
According to Yenin, fortification measures are taken to seal that part of Ukraine’s frontier which borders on Belarus. The Guard Service patrolling the border will be strengthened with manpower, necessary equipment and defense materiel including drones. Should the situation deteriorate, the National Guard and the police will be used to protect the border.
That such a situation might arise was confirmed by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki who spoke at the Polish Sejm on November 9. He said, “We are well aware of a risk that illegal migrants may try to cross Ukraine to get to the European Union if our border with Belarus is tightly closed.” In the Polish Premier’s words, the events that are taking place are the most brutal assault on his country’s border in the past thirty years.
The assault is aimed at creating chaos in the European Union and destabilizing the political situation there. It appears that all this is done by Russia with the help of Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Morawiecki went on to say, “We are sure that the events at the eastern border of Poland are part of a large and well-coordinated operation or a war of a new type in which people are used as human shields.”
Former Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, asserts that the flow of refugees attacking the Polish-Belarusian border is nothing else but a special operation engineered by the Kremlin. Under certain conditions, Russia that has been waging a hybrid war against Ukraine for the eighth year now can redirect migrants toward Ukrainian borders in order to increase social tension in the country.
The point is that lately Belarus’ diplomatic representations in some Middle East countries have begun promising their assistance to citizens of these countries in helping them to get to the European Union. While speaking at a press briefing in Brussels on November 9, Peter Stano, the European Commission’s foreign policy spokesperson, explained how the Lukashenko regime carries out these highly unacceptable and very illegal operations, “The Belarusian regime reaches out to potential travellers through their diplomatic representations or travel agencies and invites them to Belarus by offering visa and transports them to the EU border.”
Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia have accused the Belarusian authorities of using illegal migration as a weapon in the hybrid war against the European Union.
These countries have called the United Nations to take immediate measures against the leadership of Belarus who are encouraging foreigners to cross the frontiers of the European Union in an illegal way. To date, several migrants have died at the Polish border.
Meanwhile, Lithuania has begun putting up a 508-kilometer-long wall at her border with Belarus in order to stop the penetration of illegal migrants from the neighbouring country.
The newspaper Voice of Ukraine
