Tense stand-off between migrants and soldiers continues at Poland-Belarus border

Video showed around a hundred refugees pouring across a highway at the border and reaching a grassy knoll where they cheered defiantly at Polish riot police and troops stationed along a barbed wire fence. Thousands of desperate refugees from the Middle East and North Africa have been ferried to the Belarus-Poland border this week by Lukashenko’s security forces, prompting Poland to deploy 15,000 troops along the line. The EU accuses Lukashenko of luring the migrants to Belarus and the country’s Belavia airline has been forced to deny it is involved in trafficking the desperate refugees as part of the ’hybrid war.’ The Belavia airline said citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen, would be blocked from flights as of Friday ’in accordance with the decision of competent authorities in Turkey.’ Kremlin-backed tyrant Lukashenko remains defiant in the face of increased sanctions from Brussels, threatening on Thursday to cut off Russian gas supplies to Europe from a major pipeline which runs through Belarus. Amid the chaos