A new migrant center has been inaugurated in Sarajevo with significant support from Italy for unaccompanied minors seeking asylum and other vulnerable individuals.

The Polish interior minister said more personnel would guard the border with Belarus, where the arrival of thousands of Wagner troops following their revolt against Russia's Putin has prompted regional security concerns.

Poland and Hungary have blocked EU leaders from releasing a statement on migration. The two countries are opposed to a plan agreed earlier this month that seeks to more evenly distribute asylum seekers across the continent.

Italian police in the northeastern city of Trieste said it had ascertained that smugglers give sleeping pills to migrant children to prevent them from making a noise as they are moved at night across the Croatian-Slovenian border. A1