Bruzgi
Bruzgi
Брузгі | |
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Village | |
Bruzgi | |
Coordinates: 53°33′19″N 23°40′54″E / 53.55528°N 23.68167°ECoordinates: 53°33′19″N 23°40′54″E / 53.55528°N 23.68167��E | |
Country | Belarus |
Region | Grodno Region |
District | Grodensky |
Area code(s) | +375-15 |
Bruzgi (Belarusian: Брузгі, romanized: Bruzhi) is a village[1] in Belarus located in the Odelsk Rural Settlement in Grodno District which is part of Grodno Region, very close to the Belarus-Poland border. Near the village there is the Kuźnica-Bruzgi border crossing, one of the border crossing between the two countries. and are two villages nearby.
History[]
Between 1940 and 1959 the village was the administrative center of Bruzhinsky Selsoviet. Until 2002 it was part of Selsoviet.[2]
2020s[]
In 2021, (primarily Iraqi) refugees entered the vicinity of Bruzgi, intending to depart from there to cross the Polish Border[3] at Kuźnica.[4] In response, the Polish government declared a state of emergency, stationing over 12,000 troops at the border. Politicians from Poland and the European Union accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using the migrants as a form of "hybrid warfare" to destabilize Poland and other EU member countries.[5]
References[]
- ^ [Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць: нарматыўны даведнік / І. А. Гапоненка і інш.; пад рэд. В. П. Лемцюговай. — Мн.: Тэхналогія, 2004. — 469 с. ISBN 985-458-098-9 (DJVU).]
- ^ Решение Гродненского областного Совета депутатов от 20 сентября 2002 г. № 100 О решении вопросов административно-территориального устройства Гродненского района
- ^ "Belarus escorts 1,000 migrants towards Polish border". the Guardian. 2021-11-08. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ AFP, Mary Sibierski and Bernard Osser for (2021-11-08). "Migrants Massing at Border With Belarus Help, Poland Says". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ "Hundreds of migrants head toward Polish-Belarusian border". POLITICO. 2021-11-08. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
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