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What happened on 29 March 2022 along the borders?
Summary
A Polish court ruling on Belarus border pushbacks came as Ukraine's western regions absorbed strikes on fuel depots.
What did the border look like on 29 March 2022? In one town on the Polish side, a court delivered a legal verdict; a short distance away in Ukraine's west, the focus was on damaged fuel storage.
On 29 March 2022, a regional court in the border town of Hajnówka ruled that pushbacks of migrants on the Belarus–Poland border had violated Polish law. The ruling came amid the 2021–2022 border crisis between Belarus and the European Union.
Fuel depots in the west
In the days before, Russian missile strikes had hit oil facilities in western Ukraine. On 27 March 2022, a missile struck an oil depot in the Volyn region, according to Yuriy Pohulyaiko, head of the regional administration.
On 28 March 2022, a Russian missile attack hit an oil depot in the Rivne region, according to the head of the Rivne regional military administration. It was the second attack on an oil facility in that region and the latest in a series of similar strikes over recent days.
Taken together, the reports from 27 to 29 March 2022 show two different pressures along the region's frontiers: a court examining how migrants were being turned back at the Polish border, and repeated missile strikes on fuel infrastructure in Ukraine's western oblasts.
