Bruzgi () or Bruzhi ( be, Брузгі) is a village in

Grodno District Grodno District or Hrodna District ( be, Гродзенскі раён; russian: Гродненский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region of Belarus. The administrative center is Grodno, which, however, does not form part of the d ...

Grodno Region Grodno Region ( pl, Grodzieńszczyzna) or Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts ( be, Гродзенская вобласць, ''Hrodzienskaja vobłasć'', , ''Haradzienščyna''; russian: Гродненская область, ''Grodnenskaya oblast' ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

. It is part of

Odelsk Odelsk ( be, Адэльск, translit=Adeĺsk; russian: Одельск; pl, Odelsk; yi, אודלסק) is an Agrotown located in Grodno District in Grodno Region, Belarus and the capital of the Odelsky Rural Council ( be, Адэльскі сел� ...

rural council (''

selsoviet Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...

'') and is located close to the border with Poland. The Kuźnica-Bruzgi border crossing is located near the village. Klachki and Trubka are two villages nearby.

History

Between 1940 and 1959, the village served as the administrative center of Bruzgi rural council (''

''). Until 2002, it was part of Padlabyennye rural council.

21st century

In 2021, refugees, primarily Iraqi, entered the vicinity of Bruzgi, intending to depart from there to cross the Polish Border at Kuźnica. In response, the

Polish government The Government of Poland takes the form of a Unitary state, unitary Parliamentary republic, parliamentary Representative democracy, representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Poland, President is the head of state and the Prime ...

declared a

state of emergency A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to be able to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens. A government can declare such a state du ...

, stationing over 12,000 troops at the border. Politicians from Poland and the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using the migrants as a form of " hybrid warfare" to destabilize Poland and other EU member countries.

References

{{Belarus-geo-stub Villages in Belarus Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939) Belastok Region Belarus–Poland border crossings Populated places in Grodno Region Grodno District