Putin accused of conspiring with Libyan warlord to engineer new migrant crisis at EU border

• Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly coordinating with Libyan warlord Gen. Khalifa Haftar to trigger a new migration crisis targeting the EU’s eastern borders.
• European Commission officials have tracked a sharp rise in Belavia Airlines flights from Benghazi, Libya, to Minsk, Belarus, from two in May to five in June and four in July, suggesting a possible organized effort to transport migrants.
• The operation resembles the 2021 crisis when Belarus, with alleged Russian support, funneled migrants to the EU border to destabilize Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
• Russia has been expanding its military presence in Libya through Haftar, showcasing Russian-supplied weapons and potentially using Libya as a new launch point for migration pressure on Europe.
• EU migration commissioner Magnus Brunner and other officials fear Russia is deliberately using migrants as a geopolitical tool to weaken EU unity and retaliate for support to Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is believed to be working in coordination with Libyan warlord General Khalifa Haftar to engineer a new migration crisis targeting the European Union’s (EU) eastern borders.

According to European Commission sources, a sharp rise in flights between Benghazi, Libya and Minsk, Belarus over recent weeks suggests a calculated effort to funnel migrants from Africa toward the frontier of the EU. Open-source flight data shows a notable increase from just two flights in May to five in June and four in July.

“We are monitoring recent Minsk-Benghazi flights operated by Belavia Airlines,” a commission official said. “The frequency and nature of these flights, particularly within a short time frame, raise questions about potential coordination or facilitation of irregular migration flows.”

The increase is reportedly linked to a covert agreement between Putin and Haftar, who controls eastern Libya and has longstanding ties to the Kremlin. Haftar, who has benefited from significant Russian military and political support in recent years, is believed to be facilitating the transport of migrants under Kremlin direction.

Russia has steadily increased its influence in Libya following its drawdown from Syria, moving military assets from the port of Tartus to North Africa. In a recent military parade, Haftar showcased Russian-supplied armored vehicles and air defense systems.

Though still modest in volume, European officials fear this pattern could precede a new surge of migrant crossings at the EU’s vulnerable eastern border and indicate another deliberate attempt to destabilize the EU from within. (Related: RIOTS erupt across France as EU falls to migrant invasion.)

Putin revives 2021 playbook to destabilize the EU

The operation appears to mirror tactics used during the 2021 crisis, when thousands of asylum seekers were flown into Belarus and then pushed toward the borders of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

In 2021, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko was accused of luring migrants to Minsk and then guiding them, often with state support, to makeshift camps along the EU border. Migrants were reportedly coached by Belarusian officials on how to evade border detection. That earlier crisis was later understood as a smokescreen to distract from Russia’s military buildup ahead of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Since then, Putin has intensified hybrid attacks, including disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks and energy manipulation against NATO and EU nations that continue to back Ukraine. The apparent revival of the migration weapon tactic may be testing European unity and resilience.

In line with this, Magnus Brunner, the migration commissioner of the EU, said in July that “the fact that Russia is increasing its influence in Libya” is the reason they “must also engage with Libya.”

“The fact that Russia is increasing its influence in Libya is precisely our concern, and that’s why we must also engage with Libya. There is certainly a danger that Russia will use migrants and the migration issue as a whole as a weapon against Europe. This weaponization is taking place, and of course we also fear that Russia intends to do the same with Libya,” Brunner said.

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