On Sunday, January 12, the first group of illegal migrants in 2025 was detained at the Latvia-Belarus border.
According to the Latvian State Border Guard, the group consisted of 15 individuals who were attempting to illegally cross the border from Belarus.
On the same day, two citizens of Moldova were also denied entry to Latvia, as they could not explain the purpose and conditions of their stay.
At the end of November, it was reported that illegal migrants began using temporarily closed border crossings to cross into Poland. In early December, Lithuanian border guards detained seven migrants who were attempting to cross the border from Belarus illegally. Poland, in turn, extended the buffer zone along its border with Belarus until March 2025.
