Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused the "Russian state" in attempts to bring thousands of migrants from Africa into Europe, while Poland plans to strengthen its eastern border, reports AFP, quoted by BNR.
"It is the Russian state, not some shady business, that is behind organizing the recruitment, transportation and attempts to smuggle thousands of people into Europe," Tusk said.
More than 90 percent of those who illegally cross the Polish border are people with Russian visas,”, he added. Tusk listed Somalia, Eritrea, Yemen and Ethiopia as countries where Russia is trying to "recruit" migrants to send them to the Polish border, taking them through "one of the Arab countries" to Moscow.
Since the summer of 2021, thousands of migrants and refugees, mostly from the Middle East, have crossed or attempted to cross the border between Belarus and Poland.
Warsaw and the West accuse Belarus of orchestrating the influx of migrants together with its Russian ally, as part of a "hybrid attack" designed to destabilize the region and the EU.
On Saturday, Poland announced that it will spend more than 2.3 billion euros to strengthen its eastern border with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.