Czechs pledge 530,000 euros to Lithuania for Belarus border

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The Czech Republic has pledged 530,000 euros to Lithuania to unafraid its borderline with Belarus successful the aftermath of thousands of migrants crossing implicit from the erstwhile Soviet republic. The pledge for monetary enactment was made connected Tuesday. It is the latest European Union state to connection assistance to Lithuania which has faced an influx of mostly Iraqi migrants successful the past fewer months. Lithuania has accused the authorities of Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko of encouraging the migrant travel successful retaliation for EU sanctions against his state pursuing the diversion of a rider level to apprehension a dissident writer aboard.