Russia, Western nations row at U.N. over Belarus migrant crisis

Electric poles are are seen during the morning hours near the road that links the border village of Bialowieza to Hajnowka during the migrant crisis on the Belarusian - Polish border near Hajnowka, Poland, November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia traded barbs with Western members of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday over a crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, with Russia's deputy U.N. envoy suggesting his European colleagues have "masochist inclinations."

Estonia, France, Ireland, Norway, the United States and Britain raised the migrant crisis during a closed-door meeting of the 15-member body.