People seeking to migrate through Belarus and Poland are stuck at the border, and neither country wants them. EU officials have called it “weaponization of migrants” by Belarus, but for the people at the border, the geopolitical dispute is about to get worse – winter is coming. Why has this group of migrants become the center of a standoff and what will happen as temperatures drop?

In this episode: 

• Anna Alboth, Minority Rights Group International (@MinorityRights)
• Aryan, a migrant in Belarus
• Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova), journalist and non-resident fellow at Atlantic Council
• Joanna Hosa (@joannahosa), European Council on Foreign Relations 

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