Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte this week described Lukashenko’s decision to send migrants into the bloc as a “tool of hybrid war” against the EU. She stressed the urgency of the situation in a call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday, saying that nearly 3,000 migrants have been apprehended at the border with Belarus this year, 37 times more than for all of 2020. Sixty percent of them, she says, are coming from Iraq, but there are also many coming from Afghanistan, where the imminent U.S. military withdrawal is causing a panicked exodus.
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