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More trouble at the border crossing at Kuznica Białostocka where a mob of angry migrants attacked Polish forces at 11 am throwing stones which hit and injured seven Polish police officers. Some were taken to hospital with skull fractures. This attack was the most aggressive act of violence so far in the three month struggle. Allegedly, Belarussian forces distributed stun grenades among the migrants to be thrown at Polish soldiers. Poland, Lithuania and Latvia accuse the Belarussian regime of manufacturing the humanitarian crisis on the eastern border of the European Union, and the three countries also point to the Kremlin as a supporter of this action. At the same time Russian minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov criticised Poland for its treatment of migrants. Meanwhile, Aleksander Lukashenko who recently spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expecting another call from this world leader. Only a few weeks ago Poland challenged the EU’s top court decisions as creating law based