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What happened around Ukraine's borders by 14 July 2021?
Summary
A look back at regional developments reported in the days before 14 July 2021, from Lithuania's border fence to vaccines for Moldova and a Kyiv festival.
What was the picture in Ukraine's neighbourhood on 14 July 2021? Reports from the preceding days pointed to border pressure in the Baltic region, vaccine aid for Moldova and a return to live events in Kyiv.
On 9 July 2021, Lithuania began building a fence along its border with Belarus, at a reported cost of $48 million. A week earlier, Lithuania had declared a state of emergency over a rise in undocumented migrants, mostly Syrians, crossing from Belarus. Vilnius accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of deliberately trying to destabilise the country by encouraging and allowing the crossings.
On 10 July 2021, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that the United States had donated 500,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to Moldova. Moldovan President Maia Sandu praised the United States for the vaccine deployment.
In Kyiv, the Atlas Weekend music festival took place on 11 July 2021, after a year's break caused by quarantine restrictions.
