Belarus, Russia’s edge against EU: they don’t care what happens to the migrants

Putin and Lukashenko would not hesitate to escalate the humanitarian crisis at the Polish border

16 November 2021 - 18:27 By Andreas Kluth

Is there any way the stand-off at the border between the EU and Belarus can still end well? Put differently, how bad could it get? Unfortunately, the answer is: really bad. The scenarios include the death of the migrants, and even a wider war...

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