The commander of Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service (VSAT), Rustamas Liubajevas, has resigned, Interior Minister Martynas Katelynas announced, LRT reports. Katelynas said that serious questions had arisen about how VSAT had handled and reported a recent violent incident involving migrants on the border with Belarus. Media reports revealed that a group of migrants had attacked border guards and tried to drag one of the guards across the border into Belarus, ELTA reported. Liubajevas said that he resigned so as not to damage VSAT’s reputation amid the criticism. He had served as VSAT commander since 2019. A disciplinary inquiry and a pre-trial criminal investigation of the border incident are under way.
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