UN refugee agency presses Poland to help migrants on Belarus border


FILE PHOTO: Barbered wire is pictured at the Polish-Belarusian border near the village of Usnarz Gorny, Poland, August 23, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) -The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and rights groups urged Poland on Tuesday to offer medical and legal support and shelter to migrants camping on the border with Belarus, a day after Warsaw said it would build a fence to prevent migrants crossing.

Poland and fellow EU states Lithuania and Latvia have reported sharp increases in migrants from countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan trying to cross their frontiers. The EU says Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is waging "hybrid warfare" with migrants to exert pressure on the bloc.

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