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What did a Polish court rule on pushbacks?
Summary
A retrospective on a regional court ruling in Hajnówka and on Russian missile strikes on fuel depots in western Ukraine in late March 2022.
What did a Polish court decide about migrants on the Belarus border? On 29 March 2022, a regional court in the border town of Hajnówka ruled that pushbacks against migrants on the Belarus–Poland border violated Polish law. The ruling came in the context of the 2021–2022 Belarus–European Union border crisis.
Fuel depots struck in western Ukraine
The same days brought reports of Russian strikes on fuel infrastructure far from the front. On 27 March 2022, a missile hit an oil depot in Volyn region, according to the head of the regional administration, Yurii Pohuliaiko.
On 28 March 2022, a Russian missile attack struck an oil depot in Rivne region, according to the head of the Rivne regional military administration. As reported at the time, it was the second attack on an oil facility in that region and the latest in a series of similar strikes over the preceding days.
What the day showed
Taken together, the reports from 27 to 29 March 2022 point to two separate pressures on Ukraine's western neighbourhood: continuing strikes on oil depots in Volyn and Rivne regions, and a Polish court's finding on how migrants were being treated at the Belarus border.
