Latvian border guards detained 28 people who illegally crossed the state border through an underground tunnel dug from Belarus.
Delfi writes about this with reference to the State Border Guard Service of Latvia.
Border guards found an underground passage, disguised under moss, 20 meters from the border. This is the second case where a tunnel has been used to illegally cross the border into Latvia.
All 28 people were detained and returned to Belarus.
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On August 10, Latvian border guards also found an underground tunnel from the Belarusian side and detained 15 migrants. This happened in the territory of the Silesian border guard department. Last month, border guards in the country used tear gas and fired warning shots at migrants who were also trying to cross from Belarus.
What preceded
In 2021, after sanctions against Belarus for rigging the presidential election, suppressing the opposition and protests, a stream of migrants from the Middle East rushed to the borders of the European Union (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia). Europe is convinced that the regime of Alexander Lukashenko deliberately created a migration crisis (by increasing flights from the Middle East) in order to take revenge.
In response to this flow of migrants, Lithuania began turning them back to Minsk and also building a wall on the border with Belarus.
In August 2025, The Telegraph, citing sources, wrote that Putin had allegedly joined forces with Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar to provoke a new migration crisis in the European Union.
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