{"id":985360,"date":"2021-11-08T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T19:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=985360"},"modified":"2021-11-08T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T19:58:47","slug":"watch-violent-clashes-on-polish-border-as-thousands-of-mid-east-migrants-besiege-nato-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-violent-clashes-on-polish-border-as-thousands-of-mid-east-migrants-besiege-nato-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Violent Clashes on Polish Border as Thousands of Mid East Migrants Besiege NATO Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-violent-clashes-on-polish-border-as-thousands-of-mid-east-migrants-besiege-nato-frontier%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=985360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Violent clashes have taken place on the frontiers of NATO and the EU as Poland defends its border with Belarus against thousands of Middle Eastern migrants driven there by Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s regime in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial and on-the-ground footage released by the Polish authorities, government, and various official spokesmen show Polish police officers, border guards, and soldiers trying to hold back what is claimed to be thousands of migrants, some armed with wire-cutters, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MON_GOV_PL\/status\/1457709857566564354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1457709857566564354%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">shovels<\/a>, and axes being used to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiotrMuller\/status\/1457741383456985091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1457741383456985091%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">fell trees onto recently-installed protective fencing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18656378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236439563-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18656378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236439563-1.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A picture taken on November 8th, 2021 shows migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region. (Photo by LEONID SHCHEGLOV\/BELTA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sebastian Kaleta, Poland\u2019s Deputy Minister of Justice, told Breitbart London that the Polish border \u2014 which he highlighted was also the NATO and European Union border \u2014 was \u201cunder attack\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur army, police, and border guard are preventing our border from being forced by a group of 3,000 migrants,\u201d the Law and Justice Party (PiS) politician said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an action organised directly by the Belarusian regime of Lukashenko. These people want to go to Germany, but they are trying to do it illegally,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The current situation on the Belarusian-Polish border is a result of the deliberate escalation of tension by the Belarusian side. Lukashenka&#8217;s operation is in line with hybrid warfare against the West.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jensstoltenberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jensstoltenberg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikercarpenter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mikercarpenter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janis_sarts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@janis_sarts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LT_MFA_Stratcom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LT_MFA_Stratcom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHAPE_NATO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SHAPE_NATO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uYlgEVfPF5\">pic.twitter.com\/uYlgEVfPF5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stanis\u0142aw \u017baryn (@StZaryn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StZaryn\/status\/1457743609621630976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are dealing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiotrMuller\/status\/1457741320701816838\">organized destruction<\/a> of border fortifications,\u201d said&nbsp;Piotr M\u00fcller, a Polish member of parliament and spokesman for Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki\u2019s office, revealing that there have also been \u201cdirect attacks on Polish officers of the Border Guard, police, and soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office of the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prezydentpl\/status\/1457731982104973312\">said<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday that it \u201cexpected the attacks on the border to intensify in the coming hours\u201d and that the President himself would be cutting short a planned visit to Visegrad ally Slovakia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prezydent.pl\/aktualnosci\/wydarzenia\/art,2385,prezydent-zwolal-narade-ws-sytuacji-na-granicy-polsko-bialoruskiej-.html\">convening a meeting<\/a> of \u201cthe heads of ministries of national defence and foreign affairs, as well as military commanders and the commander of the Border Guard\u201d to discuss the \u201cdynamic\u201d situation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18656250\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236439651-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18656250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236439651-1-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A picture taken on November 8th, 2021 shows Poland\u2019s law enforcement officers watching migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border. Poland on November 8th said hundreds of migrants in Belarus were descending on its border aiming to force their way into the EU member in what NATO slammed as a deliberate tactic by Minsk. (Photo by Leonid Shcheglov \/ BELTA \/ AFP) \/ Belarus OUT<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lukashenko, a quasi-Stalinist leader close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is accused of bringing migrants to the Belarusian capital of Minsk direct from the Middle East for the express purpose of pushing them to the border of Poland, Lithuania, and, to a lesser extent, Latvia, as revenge for EU sanctions and for the countries\u2019 sheltering of some Belarusian opposition figures and dissidents.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared by Polish government spokesman Stanis\u0142aw \u017baryn shows long <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StZaryn\/status\/1457613962774818817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1457613962774818817%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">columns of migrants snaking along the highway<\/a> in Belarus en route to the Polish border, in- scenes reminiscent of the 2015-16 crisis, when hundreds of thousands of Syrians and others poured into Greece and marched through much of the Balkans and Central Europe, usually with Angela Merkel\u2019s Germany and other generous welfare states as their end goal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Lukashenko regime\u2019s use of migrants as a hybrid tactic is unacceptable,\u201d a NATO spokesman has said of the situation in comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2021\/11\/08\/poland-ready-defend-belarus-sends-thousands-migrants-border\/\">reported<\/a> by <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, adding that the mutual defence organisation \u201ccontinues to closely monitor the situation, which is putting pressure on our Allies Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.056818181818\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1An emergency meeting of anti-crisis management headquarters is taking place in Poland right now. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Polish?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Polish<\/a> side, several thousand more migrants are moving to the border from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Belarus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Belarus<\/a>. The movement of cars at the border between Poland and Belarus has actually stopped. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QAJaZ6Hp2k\">pic.twitter.com\/QAJaZ6Hp2k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEXTA (@nexta_tv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nexta_tv\/status\/1457690954241093638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Belarus is home to a substantial Polish minority, many of them stranded in the then-Soviet Socialist Republic when Moscow redrew Poland\u2019s borders following Hitler and Stalin\u2019s effective joint invasion of the country in 1939.<\/p>\n<p>This minority was much larger before the so-called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ipn.gov.pl\/en\/news\/977,What-was-the-Polish-Operation-by-the-NKVD.html\">Polish Operation of the NKVD<\/a>, the Soviets\u2019 secret police, of 1937\u20131938, which saw over 110,000 people with Polish ties summarily executed, and close to 30,000 sent to labour camps. Victims\u2019 family members were deported to far-flung lands such as Kazakhstan or put into orphanages, in many cases, or left destitute following the seizure of the possessions of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s parliament has voted through funding for a more substantial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/30\/polish-lawmakers-back-border-wall-belarus-stop-surge-illegals\/\">Donald Trump-style border wall<\/a> to be constructed against Belarus, but is for the time being relying largely on emergency manpower and makeshift fencing to deter crossings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.309037900875\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Polish?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Polish<\/a> Defense Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mblaszczak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mblaszczak<\/a> posted a photo of Belarusian border guards with scissors cutting the barbed wire fence<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such situations on the border are common. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Belarusian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Belarusian<\/a> military is trying to escalate the situation every day by using provocations\u2026&#8221;, wrote Blaszczak. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iZOsmOBeAv\">pic.twitter.com\/iZOsmOBeAv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEXTA (@nexta_tv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nexta_tv\/status\/1456256183245754375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent clashes have taken place on the frontiers of NATO and the EU as Poland defends its border with Belarus against thousands of Middle Eastern migrants driven there by Alexander &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}