Migrants stay at camp near Poland border

Migrants camped overnight into Tuesday at the border between Poland and Belarus as the situation remained calm after attempts to breach the frontier into the European Union the day before. About 2,000 migrants were stuck at the border between Poland and Belarus amid a tense standoff.

Those left in the makeshift camp face near-freezing temperatures, as well as a lack of food and sanitation. The situation marks an escalation in months of migration pressure against Lithuania and Poland, and to a lesser extent Latvia, the three EU states on the bloc's eastern border with Belarus. The EU says Belarus is building the pressure, intending to destabilize the bloc in retaliation for Western sanctions.