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Water cannon, grenades, pushbacks and fence breaching as tensions escalate on Belarus-Poland border
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Tensions that have been building along the Poland Belarus border for weeks spilt over into violence on Tuesday. Polish border guards used water cannon against migrants on the Belarus side of the frontier. Warsaw says people were armed with gas grenades supplied by Belarus, which they threw over the fences towards Polish guards. Stones and rocks were also being fired during a tense standoff at the checkpoint. Belarus has accused Poland of pushbacks and of not allowing people to apply for asylum in the EU. But Warsaw says Minsk is engaged in a hybrid attack on the country.
Jack Parrock, Euronews' reporter in Brussels, says the situation on the border is a big concern for the EU, particularly when it comes to upholding people's right to seek
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