Belarus-Poland border crisis traps thousands in "catastrophic" conditions

 

CNN offer the following summary of the humanitarian migrant crisis along the Belarus/Poland border:

• Thousands of people trapped on the border between Poland and Belarus are being stopped from crossing into Poland by some 15,000 soldiers.
• The European Union, the United States and NATO have accused Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of manufacturing a migrant crisis on the EU's eastern frontier as retribution for sanctions over human rights abuses.
• Stranded people are facing "catastrophic" conditions in freezing forests and makeshift camps at the border.
• The US and EU are preparing to levy fresh sanctions on Belarus.

Click the CNN link above for updates.

KJ