EU will help finance Poland's border security, says Tusk

FILE PHOTO: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk looks on during a press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Warsaw, Poland, April 15, 2024. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) - The leaders of European Union countries agree that the bloc should help finance security measures on Poland's border with Belarus, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.

The border has been a flashpoint since migrants started flocking there in 2021. The EU accuses Belarus, a close Russian ally, of flying in migrants from the Middle East and sending them across the border illegally in an attempt to engineer a crisis, which Minsk denies.