The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) expressed concern on Tuesday about the escalating crisis on the European Unions’ borders with Belarus, offering support to Poland. The head of the alliance said that Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko is putting the lives of illegal immigrants at risk by “instrumentalizing” them as a “hybrid tactic against other countries.” “We are deeply concerned about the way the Lukashenko regime is using vulnerable migrants as a hybrid tactic against other countries and he is putting the lives of the migrants at risk,” NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement. “We stand in solidarity with Poland and other affected allies,” he added, noting that NATO is also ready to continue to support and consult closely with the allies involved. EU ambassadors have agreed last week that the growing numbers of illegal immigrants flying to Belarus to reach the EU border amount to “hybrid warfare” …