#Frontex publishes analysis of Eastern borders for Q2
Ukrainians accounted for the biggest share of the 1 400 illegal border crossings on the Europe’s eastern borders in the second quarter of this year, but only 10 cases were related to irregular migration, according to Frontex’s Eastern European Borders Quarterly report.
The rest of the illegal crossings by the citizens of Ukraine were in large part linked to smuggling.
Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovans and other citizens of the CIS countries accounted for 47 percent of the illegal crossings. The remaining 53 percent of the detections involved nationals from outside the region, especially citizens of Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Detections of illegal crossings between border crossing points in the April-June period increased 82 percent from the previous quarter and 74 percent from the same three-month period of 2014. Larger numbers of Vietnamese and Afghan migrants accounted for the increase, while the number of Syrian nationals fell from the first three months of the year.
▻http://frontex.europa.eu/news/frontex-publishes-analysis-of-eastern-borders-for-q2-G9vfSE
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