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A dramatic situation is developing on the border of the European Union as hundreds of migrants attempted to force their way into Poland from neighbouring Belarus. The government in Minsk is currently under EU sanctions following President Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election last year, and the EU accuses him of artificially creating the crisis in retaliation. Many migrants have described being flown into Belarus as tourists - and then guided or forced to the border.

In the meantime, hundreds of people - who believed they could easily reach the EU - are now trapped in freezing temperatures at the border, including many children.

Belarussian journalist Hanna Liubakova, reports from outside the country, but is in close touch with events there.

"I know from my friends who are still in Belarus that they're trying to help them with warm clothes, but many of them say that they're about to leave for the EU. They think it will be easy, that they will take a few hours to get to Poland or Lithuania and they don't really need warm clothes. So there is a lot of misunderstanding on the part of the migrants as well."

(Photo: Migrants wait at the border fence watched by Polish soldiers. Credit: EPA)

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