- Belarus has hired hacker group Ghostwriter to launch disinformation campaigns in Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine.
- The Belarussian army has given an ultimatum to migrants to either pass the border with Poland or die. In response, the migrants attempted to destroy the border fence and fight with the Polish border guards.
- The crisis began in the early summer of 2021 when Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko threatened to introduce human traffickers, drug smugglers and armed migrants to Europe.
- Later, Belarusian authorities and state-controlled tourist enterprises, together with some airlines operating in the Middle East, started promoting tours to Belarus by increasing the number of connections from the Middle East and giving those who bought them Belarusian visas, ostensibly for hunting purposes.
