The critical situation with migrants at the EU’s external borders prompted incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel to make a phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
Due to the dramatic situation on the EU’s external borders, incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel made a phone call to President Putin on Wednesday about the situation on Poland’s border with Belarus. According to German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, Merkel told Putin that the “instrumentalization of migrants” from Belarus was inhumane and unacceptable. She turned to Putin to influence the crisis over Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime.
The Kremlin had previously blamed the EU for the migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, saying the EU was failing to respect its humanitarian values. But the EU and the Polish government accuse Belarusian incumbent Alexander Lukashenko of deliberately allowing people from crisis zones to smuggle them into the EU. The situation on the border between Belarus and Poland remains tense.
