Lukashenko’s latest threat: migrants as a weapon against Brussels

Closed in a corner by Western sanctions, Aleksandr Lukashenko he tries to react by playing with borders: he opens the one with the EU to migrants, but seals the one with Ukraine. The first move was announced by the Belarusian president on 22 June. “They want us to protect them from smugglers and drug traffickers – he said referring to the Europeans – even beyond the Atlantic they are asking us not to let nuclear material into Europe.