A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights office says Belarus and Poland are pushing refugees back and forth across their border and leaving them without enough food and other basic necessities.

Belarus has summoned the British ambassador over an embassy attack during which a Belarusian diplomat got hurt.

The punitive measures are “inhumane by nature, due to the negative impact they will have on ordinary Belarus citizens,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei says his country is ready to end confrontation with Western nations.

Belarus blasts the West for bringing the country under fresh sanctions after accusing Minsk of stoking a migrant crisis.

Diplomats of the European Union (EU) agree to add 28 individuals and bodies to a list of sanctions against Belarus, repeating claims that Minsk is luring migrants to the border with Poland in retaliation for existing EU sanctions.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko calls on Germany to take in the migrants stranded on the Belarusian border with Poland.