Migrants face hypothermia and broken bones in freezing forests as Poland-Belarus crisis deepens
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Migrants trapped on the border between Poland and Belarus have made hundreds of attempts to breach the frontier, but were repelled by 15,000 Polish soldiers deployed to stop them, according to Polish authorities.
The thousands of stranded people are caught at the center of an intensifying geopolitical dispute in which the European Union, the United States and NATO have accused Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of manufacturing a migrant crisis on the EU's eastern frontier to destabilize the bloc as retribution for sanctions over human rights abuses. His government denies the claims, and instead blames the West for dangerous, sometimes fatal, border crossings and poor treatment of migrants.
The Polish border guard said it had recorded nearly 600 crossing attempts by migrants Tuesday, as well as "three large scale" efforts overnight into Wednesday, with more than 100 migrants in each group trying to breach the fence.
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