{"id":564525,"date":"2026-07-31T21:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=564525"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:47:17","slug":"latvia-closes-border-with-belarus-due-to-technical-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latvia-closes-border-with-belarus-due-to-technical-reasons","title":{"rendered":"Latvia Closes Border With Belarus &#8220;Due to Technical Reasons&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><em>(updated)<\/em> The border between Latvia and Belarus has been closed &#8220;due to technical reasons.&#8221; Latvian Interior Minister <b>J\u0101nis Dombrava<\/b> announced this on the evening of July 31.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;The Latvian-Belarusian border has been closed due to technical reasons. We urge everyone who has not yet returned to Latvia to use alternative routes,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> Dombrava <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dombrava\/posts\/pfbid0ybnzJrgTxkg75FHLG5ccnmHQnausaCTwRnZn9WxAEZABbRNwSDxwshPYmLe8Uyxvl\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, July 30, the Latvian interior minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dombrava\/posts\/pfbid02n6dPHY777utfsibGhHAn1CeXWTTryuKnL46X8yVBu31wFG5M7jyvGRDcoDXB4sa5l\">urged<\/a> citizens not to plan trips to Belarus and called on those currently there to return to Latvia.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;Safe travel between the two countries may become more difficult in the context of hybrid warfare conducted by Belarus,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he warned yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the number of migrants attempting to enter Latvia illegally across the Belarusian-Latvian border has increased. Dozens of attempted illegal crossings are recorded every day.<\/p>\n<p><em>updated at 10:15 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A representative of the Latvian State Border Guard, <b>Krist\u012bne Petersone<\/b>, said the border had been closed because of a failure in the information systems at the P\u0101ternieki border crossing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lv\/193\/politics\/120128730\/slegta-latvijas-baltkrievijas-robeza\">Delfi reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the failure and the timeframe for resolving the problem are not yet known, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(updated) The border between Latvia and Belarus has been closed &#8220;due to technical reasons.&#8221; Latvian Interior Minister J\u0101nis Dombrava announced this on the evening of July 31. &#8220;The Latvian-Belarusian border has been closed due to technical reasons. We urge everyone who has not yet returned to Latvia to use alternative routes,&#8221; Dombrava wrote on Facebook. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":530293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a6db299933f6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Latvia Closes Border With Belarus \u00abDue to Technical Reasons\u00bb"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143171],"class_list":["post-564525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-latvija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}