MOSCOW (Bywire News) - It was reported on Tuesday by Russia's TASS news agency that, the interior ministry of Belarus said that 118 migrants were deported on Monday and more would follow on Tuesday.
Belarus has been condemned by the European Union for flying in thousands of immigrants from war-ridden countries in the Middle East and pushing them through the bloc borders via Lithuania, Poland and Latvia. The EU has said Belarus' actions are retaliation to sanctions imposed on Minsk over President Alexander Lukashenko's reaction to protests against his re-election in 2020.
(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Giles Elgood, and Klaudia Fior)