Belarus’ leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka said on Friday it is “absolutely possible” that troops at the Polish-Belarusian border have helped illegal immigrants into the European Union (EU), according to reports. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the authoritarian leader said that Belarusian troops know illegal immigrants are trying to reach Germany, adding that “maybe someone helped them,” but he denied the country had invited them to provoke a border crisis. Thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, have gathered on the Polish–Belarusian border in hopes of crossing into the EU. The EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have accused Minsk of mounting “a hybrid attack” by flying illegal immigrants to Belarus and luring them to the border with a false promise of easy entry as a way to put pressure on the 27-member bloc as an act of revenge for sanctions over a clampdown on Belarusian protests …