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A Poland's serviceman patrols behind a barbed wire fence on the Belarusian-Polish border as migrants gather in a camp on the Belarusian side in the Grodno region on November 14, 2021. - Thousands of migrants -- most of them from the Middle East -- have crossed or attempted to cross the EU and NATO border since the summer. Western countries have accused the Belarusian regime, which is backed by Russia, of engineering the crisis in retaliation against EU sanctions, charges that Minsk has denied. (Photo by Oksana MANCHUK / BELTA / AFP) / Belarus OUT (KEYSTONE/BELTA/OKSANA MANCHUK)