Belarus has no plans to prevent migrants from crisis-hit regions from passing through the country en route to European Union countries, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with Russian television on Monday. “You place a noose around my neck in the form of sanctions and then demand that I protect the EU from the flow of these migrants? That won’t happen,” Lukashenko said. EU authorities, and Poland in particular, have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lukashenko, his ally, of deliberately funnelling irregular migrants to the EU since 2021, providing them with …