BRUSSELS, 15 November 2021, (TON): Thousands of migrants from the Middle East are camped out on the EU-Belarus border, creating a stand-off between the EU and US on one side and Belarus and its ally Russia on the other

Warsaw said “dozens of migrants have been detained after crossing into Poland from Belarus, warning of a possible larger breakthrough ahead of an EU meeting to widen sanctions on Belarus.”

Police said on Twitter that 50 migrants had crossed the heavily-guarded EU and Nato border near the village of Starzyna "by force".

They were all later detained, the border guard said, adding that they could see signs of "a bigger attempt at crossing the border .”

Thousands of migrants from the Middle East are camped out on the EU-Belarus border, creating a stand-off between the EU and US on one side and Belarus and its ally Russia on the other.

Western countries accuse Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's regime of deliberately engineering the crisis by encouraging migrants to come to Belarus and then taking them to the border.

Belarus denies the charges and blames the West.