Belarus says it is sending back some migrants – report

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Published: Nov 23, 2021, 07:27 UTC

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus's interior ministry said on Tuesday 118 migrants had left the country a day earlier and more would depart on Tuesday, Russia's TASS news agency reported.

Migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarus’s interior ministry said on Tuesday 118 migrants had left the country a day earlier and more would depart on Tuesday, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.

The European Union accuses Belarus of flying in thousands of people from the Middle East and pushing them to cross into the bloc via Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in retaliation for EU sanctions imposed on Minsk over President Alexander Lukashenko’s crushing of protests against his disputed re-election last year.

(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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