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The United States is preparing new sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in coordination with the European Union, over the "inhumane facilitation" of migrant flows on its border with Poland. SOUNDBITE
The blacklist of targets believed to be involved in human trafficking will be developed over the coming days.
Due to the still tense situation on the eastern border of the EU, the ongoing migration crisis which has recently been gaining another momentum, as well as the announcements about the possible relocation of the Wagner group to Belarus – and, if not above all, due to the ongoing NATO summit in Lithuania – Poland decided to strengthen its borders with an additional 500 policemen and 1000 soldiers. Our team on the ground reports.
In a forest listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, hundreds of migrants fight for survival in the hope of crossing into the European Union. So far, 48 bodies have been found there since the start of the migration crisis two years ago
Poland has erected walls and fences along its frontier and imposed sanctions on Russia and Belarus.