On Belarus border, EU guards patrol amid migrant 'crisis'

Druskininkai, Lithuania (AFP) July 20, 2021

With a pair of binoculars, a German police officer working for the EU border agency Frontex scans an empty field crossed by the Belarus-Lithuania border on the lookout for migrants. The Baltic EU member state has seen more than 2,000 arrivals since the start of the year across the border from Belarus. Most of the migrants are from Iraq, and Lithuanian officials suspect the influx is bein