In 2021, 8,000 people were sent from Belarus towards the borders of Poland, Finland and the Baltic states.

Omissions

• The claim lists Finland among the targeted countries, but the 2021 Belarus-orchestrated crisis affected only Poland, Lithuania and Latvia; Finland has no border with Belarus and was not part of the 2021 events.
• The sources consulted are secondary (news outlet, NGO and think-tank reports citing Frontex), not the original Frontex/Eurostat data table.
• The figure of 8,000 refers to irregular border crossings/entries recorded by Frontex in 2021, not necessarily to a verified count of people 'sent' by Belarus, which is an interpretive framing.

Sources

• SecondaryAl Jazeera — 'A new humanitarian crisis unfolds at the Polish-Belarusian border'About 8,000 migrants have entered the 27-nation EU – mostly through Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia – from Belarus this year, and border...
• SecondaryECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) — 'EU Eastern Borders: Belarus and Poland Enact Brutal Violence'As the EU's border and coast guard agency, Frontex, tallies 8,000 'illegal border crossings' into the EU from Belarus in 2021, rights groups...
• SecondaryDIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies) — 'Fortifying the EU's eastern border: countering hybrid attacks from Belarus'...countries to destabilise the EU, resulting in 8,000 illegal immigrants entering the EU. The situation on the Belarusian side of the border...