Lukashenko says Belarusian troops may have helped refugees reach Europe
udf.byThe Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, made the admission in an interview with the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg.
Photograph: Nikolai Petrov/Belta/Tass The Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has acknowledged that his troops probably helped Middle Eastern asylum seekers cross into Europe, in the clearest admission yet that he engineered the new migrant crisis on the border with the EU. In an interview with the BBC at his presidential palace in Minsk, he said it was “absolutely possible” that his troops helped migrants across the frontier into Poland. “Maybe someone helped them.