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111 Crossings in a Day: Latvia Says Putin Is Waging Hybrid War on Its Eastern Flank
Prime Minister Kulbergs links the surge at the Belarus border to Russia's battlefield losses in Ukraine as Latvia fires its first warning shot and reaches for tear gas.
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- On July 23, 2026, PM Andris Kulbergs told Euronews that Putin is stepping up a hybrid war on Latvia because he is losing in Ukraine, and accused the top level of the Russian mob of directing the crossings.
- On July 22, 2026, Latvian soldiers fired a warning shot and used tear gas against migrants at the Belarus border who had thrown logs at security personnel; the group retreated into Belarus.
- Latvia recorded 111 attempted illegal crossings from Belarus in a single day, with the recent weekly pace roughly double the earlier baseline.
O zaman yanıtsız olanlar
- Whether the crossings are centrally directed from Moscow or Minsk, as Latvia alleges, or driven by other dynamics, as Russia and Belarus deny.
- Whether NATO allies will treat the warning shot as a trigger for reinforced collective defense on the eastern flank, or as a national policing matter for Riga.
- How the October Latvian parliamentary election reshapes the political coalition behind the current border posture.
Takip edeceğimizi söylediklerimiz
- Whether a second warning shot becomes necessary, and whether the October vote becomes the deadline Kulbergs is publicly preparing for.
