Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service (VSAT) has reported a sharp rise in secondary migration via Latvia, BNS reports. Altogether 352 irregular migrants who entered Latvia from Belarus were detained in Lithuania and Poland in the first half of 2025, which was up 2.5 times from 140 in the same period of 2024. Most of the detained migrants were from Somalia and Afghanistan. Poland announced that it would introduce stricter checks on its borders with Lithuania and Germany in response to intensified irregular migration, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said, according to BNS. VSAT spokesman Giedrius Misutis noted that the first point of entry into the EU of the migrants detained in Poland was not through Lithuania, BNS reported. Lithuania will send police officers and border guards to Latvia to help deal with irregular migration from Belarus, Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovic told BNS. VSAT turned back a total of 5,914 migrants trying to enter Lithuania in the first half of 2025.
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