Poland has invited US citizens to use its territory to urgently leave Belarus. This was reported on the Polish border agency’s page on social network X (formerly Twitter).
Prior to that, the US State Department had asked its citizens to leave Belarus immediately, in connection with the closure of part of the border checkpoints on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border.
“In connection with the US Embassy’s appeal to American citizens to urgently leave Belarusian territory, we inform you that they can enter Poland through the border crossing in Terespol,” said the Polish border agency.
“Brest-Terespol” is the only passenger border crossing operating on the border between Poland and Belarus. On August 18, Lithuanian authorities closed two of the six checkpoints on the Belarusian border. The work was stopped by objects at Shumskas and Tveryachyus.
Before that the USA He insisted The Americans will immediately leave Belarus due to the closure of the border checkpoint.
It was previously known that Latvia activates Border guards on the Belarusian border.