Belarusian troops tear up Poland border fence

The bitter dispute between Warsaw and Minsk dramatically escalated last night when Belarusian troops ripped up the border fence and prevented Polish soldiers from rebuilding it.

Film footage released this morning by Poland’s Border Force reveals how its troops were blinded by lasers and strobe lights as they tried to shore up the frontier.

Hours earlier Belarus forces had destroyed part of the 120 miles of barbed wire fencing that separates the east European states. Migrants were also armed with tear gas by the Belarus military to attack Polish forces once they got across the border.

The incursion occurred near the town of Czeremcha which has seen hundreds of migrants pass through the frontier in recent weeks, amid accusations that Belarus is weaponizing the crisis with backing from Moscow.

The soldiers were carrying out the orders of their Minsk dictator leader Alexander Lukashenko to help migrants across the border to destabilise the EU.

A spokesman for the Polish Border Force told MailOnline: ‘Last night near Czeremcha, Belarusian soldiers began to destroy the temporary border by tearing up fence posts.

‘Polish forces were blinded by laser beams and strobe light,’ 그들은 말했다. '또한, a group of about 100 migrants were to cross and Poland says Belarusians gave them tear gas, which was used against the Polish forces.’

As the crisis escalated, Britain’s most senior military officer warned that there is a greater risk of an accidental war breaking out between the West and Russia than at any time since the Cold War.

General Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, told Times Radio there was a greater risk of tensions in the new era of a ‘multipolar world’, where governments compete for different objectives and different agendas.

‘I think we have to be careful that people don’t end up allowing the bellicose nature of some of our politics to end up in a position where escalation leads to miscalculation,’ he said in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday.

Tensions have been mounting in eastern Europe in recent weeks after the European Union accused Belarus of flying in thousands of migrants to engineer a humanitarian crisis on its border with EU-member state Poland, a dispute that threatens to draw in Russia and NATO.

Putin said on Saturday that unscheduled NATO drills in the Black Sea posed a serious challenge for Moscow and that Russia had nothing to do with the crisis on close ally Belarus’s border with the bloc.

Carter said authoritarian rivals were willing to use any tool at their disposal, such as migrants, surging gas prices, proxy forces or cyber attacks. ‘The character of warfare has changed,’ 그는 말했다.

Following the bi-polar world of the Cold War, and the unipolar world of U.S. 권세, diplomats now face a more complex multi-polar world, 그는 말했다, adding that ‘traditional diplomatic tools and mechanisms’ of the Cold War were no longer available.

‘Without those tools and mechanisms there is a greater risk that these escalations or this escalation could lead to miscalculation,’ 그는 말했다. ‘So I think that’s the real challenge we have to be confronted with.’

Britain said on Friday that a small team of UK military personnel had been deployed to explore ‘engineering support’ for Poland on its border with Belarus.

British Typhoon fighters also escorted two Russian military aircraft out of its area of interest on Friday, working with NATO partners to monitor the jets as they passed through international airspace.

그 동안에, Polish police said on Saturday the body of a young Syrian man was found in Poland near the border with Belarus, police said on Saturday, amid mounting international tension over the migrant crisis the EU says has been orchestrated by Minsk.

Thousands of migrants from the Middle East are sheltering in freezing conditions on the border between Belarus and EU states Poland and Lithuania, which are refusing to let them cross. Some have already died and there are fears for the safety of the rest as bitter winter conditions settle in.

The death brings to 11 the number of migrants found dead on both sides since the crisis began in the summer, according to aid groups.

'어제, in the woods, near the border, near Wolka Terechowska, the body of a young Syrian man was found,’ Podlaska Police said on Twitter.

The police said they had been unable to determine the cause of death at the scene.

The discovery comes amid mounting international tension over the crisis, with neighbours of Belarus warning the situation could escalate into a military conflict and U.S. President Joe Biden expressing his concern.

Polish border guards estimate there are currently up to 4,000 migrants camped out along the border.

Belarus said on Saturday that the number of migrants arriving at a makeshift camp on the border was growing daily, and that a group of up to 100 had crossed into Polish territory.

‘There’s a group (of migrants) close to the crossing point… They are indeed on Polish territory. 까지 100 사람들,’ the RIA news agency quoted the Belarusian state border committee as saying.

The Polish Border Guard said Belarusian soldiers had torn up a section of the temporary fence erected by Poland to deter migrants during the night.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, a key ally of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, said Russia has nothing to do with the migrant crisis.

토요일에, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski told private broadcaster RMF FM he would meet U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to discuss the situation next week. He said around 1,500 people were camped at the border and that this number was growing.

폴란드, 오스트리아, 푸틴 전쟁에 세계 분노, Latvia and Estonia have asked international aid organizations to organise humanitarian and medical assistance in Belarus to ‘avoid tragedies and prevent (ㅏ) humanitarian crisis’ at the Polish border.

The Polish Border Guard said there were 219 attempts to illegally cross the border on Friday. The Lithuanian border guard says 144 migrants attempted to enter on Friday.

Speaking on Saturday, 러시아 대통령 블라디미르 푸틴 말했다 러시아 has nothing to do with the migrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border.

‘I want everyone to know. We have nothing to do with it,’ he said in an interview with state broadcaster Vesti, after Poland and other Western critics accused Moscow of working with Minsk to send thousands of migrants to the EU border.

Putin said European leaders needed to talk to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko if they want to resolve the crisis, which has left hundreds of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, trapped on the border.

‘내가 이해하는대로, Alexander Lukashenko and (독일 수상 안젤라) Merkel are ready to talk to each other,’ 과두 정치인과 국영 기업.

‘I hope this will happen in the near future – this is most important.’

He again blamed the West for the crisis, saying its policies in the Middle East were the reasons migrants wanted to go to Europe in the first place.

‘We should not forget where these crises associated with migrants came from. 뭐, is Belarus the cause of these problems or something?’ 과두 정치인과 국영 기업.

'아니, these reasons were created by Western countries themselves, including European countries. They are political, military and economic in nature.’

Putin also said on Saturday that Moscow considered recent Black Sea exercises by US and other NATO ships as a serious challenge.

‘The United States and its allies in NATO are carrying out unplanned exercises in the Black Sea. Not only is a rather powerful naval group involved in these exercises, but also aviation, including strategic aviation. This is a serious challenge for us,’ he said in an interview with state broadcaster Vesti.