“The situation is really extremely tense.

There is a tendency for an increase in tension, which cannot but worry us, ”said Peskov.

He added that "there is an impending humanitarian catastrophe" amid the reluctance of European colleagues to demonstrate commitment to their European values.

Peskov also said that the presidents of Russia and Belarus discussed the situation at the border.

“The President of Belarus, we are talking about the situation on the Belarusian-Polish border in the first place, and the President told his Russian counterpart about what is happening there,” Peskov said.

Earlier, a spokesman for the Polish government, Piotr Müller, said that the Polish authorities are considering the possibility of completely closing the border with Belarus in connection with the migration crisis.