Poland, Latvia worry over Russia's war games on tense EU-Belarus border


BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Poland and Latvia expressed concern on Thursday over Russia's looming military drills held jointly on Belarus' western border where the European Union accuses Minsk of pushing migrants over to put pressure on the bloc.

Poland, Latvia and Lithuania sealed off their eastern borders after several thousand people - including from Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo and Cameroon - got in, crossing on foot from Belarus through dense woods.

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