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Residents comment on Poland-Belarus border crisis

10.12.2021 21:30
Some 20 km from the Polish-Belarusian border Polish Radio reporters have found clothes and food apparently dumped by migrants who managed to illegally cross into the European Union.
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A Polish soldier stands guard at the countrys eastern border with Belarus amid attempts by migrants to cross illegally into the European Union.
A Polish soldier stands guard at the country's eastern border with Belarus amid attempts by migrants to cross illegally into the European Union.Photo: PAP/Wojtek Jargiło

In recent months the area has found itself at the centre of an ongoing border crisis, which has forced it to shut schools as it became overrun with security and police forces deployed to tackle migration pressure from Belarus.

The reporters asked local residents what they think of the border situation and the sudden influx of migrants.

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