Latvia observes suspicious migrant activity on the border with Belarus
On October 23, the State Border Guard of Latvia recorded 50 attempts by migrants to cross the border illegally from the territory of Belarus.
An analysis of daily updated statistical data shows that this is the highest figure since October 10, when 58 such attempts were recorded. In the period between these dates, daily figures ranged from 4 (on October 14) to 39 (on October 22).
Since the beginning of October, Latvia has thwarted 696 attempts to breach the border from the direction of Belarus. The highest daily figure for this month was recorded on October 4, with 95 attempts.
Since the beginning of 2026, the Baltic state’s border service has registered just under 12,400 such attempts—an increase of 12.8% compared to the same period last year. The Latvian section accounts for 84.7% of all migrant activity recorded over the past ten months along the European Union’s border with Belarus (with 12% occurring on the Lithuanian section and 3.3% on the Polish section).
The migration crisis on the border between Belarus and EU countries has been ongoing since the spring of 2021. Authorities in the neighboring European states view it as a “hybrid attack” orchestrated by the regimes in Minsk and Moscow.