Poland reports fewer attempts to cross its border with Belarus

FILE PHOTO: Migrants stay in the transport and logistics centre Bruzgi on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region, Belarus November 19, 2021. Maxim Guchek/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS

WARSAW/BIALYSTOK, Poland (Reuters) -The number of migrants trying to force their way into Poland from Belarus fell again on Friday after an apparent change in tack by Minsk that could help calm a crisis that has escalated into a major East-West confrontation.

The Polish Border Guard said on Twitter that there were 195 attempts to cross the frontier on Friday, down from 250 on Thursday and 501 the day before, though Warsaw warned that the migrant crisis was far from over.