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- Russia traded barbs
with Western members

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of the UN Security Council
on Thursday

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over the migrant on
the Belarus/Poland border.

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The European Union has accused
of Belarus

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of encouraging thousands
of migrants to cross into Poland

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and other neighboring countries
as retaliation for sanctions.

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Many have done so
with wire cutters

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they say were given to them
by Belarusian border guards.

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The Security Council's Western
Block on Thursday

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condemned Belarus' actions,

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calling President
Alexander Lukashenko

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a threat
to regional stability.

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- We condemn the orchestrated
instrumentalization

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of human beings,

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whose lives and wellbeing
have been put in danger

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for political purposes
by Belarus with the objective

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of destabilizing
neighboring countries.

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- Russia doubled down on
its support for allied Belarus,

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though it has denied its own
involvement in the crisis.

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Its deputy ambassador
to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy

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called the accusations
masochistic.

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- Frankly, I started to suspect
that maybe our Estonian,

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French,
and other colleagues,

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they have some kind
of masochist inclinations

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because to raise this topic,

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which are total shame
for the EU in front of us,

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would be very brave.

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- Poland's defense minister
on Thursday released footage

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of what appeared to be border
guards sending migrants away.

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- No Belarus.
Displace Poland.

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- While Belarus warned
the crisis could escalate

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into a military
confrontation, Ukraine,

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which has said it would deploy

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thousands more troops
on its own border,

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also released footage of drills
meant to hold migrants back.

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Most of the migrants
have remained

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trapped between Belarus
and Poland's borders,

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enduring freezing weather
in makeshift camps.

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Poland has reported at least
seven migrant deaths

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in the months-long
crisis.