Polish diplomats were not let into Russia through the border with Belarus
Border guards turned away the Polish diplomats, who were trying to cross the Russian-Belarusian border in the Smolensk region.
The incident occurred at the Krasnaya Gorka checkpoint. According to the FSB border management of the region, two cars with diplomatic license plates traveled from Belarus to Russia and were stopped at the border between the two countries on a Moscow-Minsk highway.
A border guard spokesman, Alexander Laznenko, explained that there are no border control staff that manage the admission of citizens of third countries to the Russian Federation at this checkpoint. The diplomats were advised to cross the border in a neighboring region.
In autumn of 2016, the Krasnaya Gorka checkpoint was closed to everyone except citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus. The nearest place where foreigners can cross the border of the two countries is at a checkpoint in the Bryansk region and the Burachki Border Crossing Point on the border between Russia and Latvia.