Latvia stops armed migrant push from Belarus, then loses border cameras to masked raiders hours later
The escorts threatened Latvian soldiers before the raiders slipped back to Belarus ahead of the border guards.
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The Belarus border tunnels reached Latvia—guards turned back the 15 migrants who crawled underground
The passage surfaced near Latvia’s fence as Riga moved to coordinate police, soldiers, and security services against migrant-smuggling networks.
The Belarusian tunnel to the EU was almost done. Then Lithuania drilled a hole in exactly the wrong place—for the diggers
Polish tunnel-detection equipment narrowed down the location, and a single bore confirmed a passage running from Belarusian soil.
Latvia logs 111 straight days of migrants pushed across from Belarus—and blames its support for Ukraine
Lithuania and Poland together absorbed barely a tenth of the roughly 9,100 attempts recorded across the bloc's Belarus frontier since January.
Latvia exposes Belarusian military’s direct role in weaponizing migration
Documents and photos from detained migrants reveal coordinated operations
Latvia just finished building a 280-kilometer fence to keep Russia out
With the physical barrier on the Russian and Belarusian borders now complete, authorities plan to create the most modern border protection system on the EU's eastern frontier by installing smart technology by the end of 2026.