The National Armed Forces (NBS) announced that this week soldiers have stopped at least 20 illegal migrant attempts to cross the Latvian and Belarusian border. The NBS indicated that the groups were accompanied by masked and armed individuals who threatened the soldiers and encouraged the migrants to head towards Latvia. The NBS described this incident as a particularly demonstrative and aggressive provocation. The armed forces expressed that such incidents and hybrid threats will continue, using illegal migration to exert pressure on Latvia and the external border of the European Union and NATO. The NBS also informed that they will continue to support the State Border Guard at the Latvian–Belarusian and Latvian–Russian borders. #NelegālāMigrācija #Robežsardze #Latvija (translated)












