Zakharova commented on the statement of the Pope about the "cemetery of migrants"

The Pope called for clemency to illegal migrants and called the Mediterranean, where a large number of refugees are dying, "a great cemetery."

“For partners, note: neither Belarus nor Russia is washed by the Mediterranean Sea,” Zakharova noted in her Telegram channel.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko previously named the approximate number of refugees from the Middle East in the country.

On November 25, the consul of Iraq in Russia and Belarus, Majid Al-Kinani, said that more than a thousand migrants expressed a desire to leave the Belarusian territory and return to their homeland.

Iraqi Airways added two more outbound flights for Iraqi migrants who tried to get through Belarusian territory to the EU.