Merkel speaks to Lukashenko, second time this week Germany reports higher arrivals from Belarus via Poland At least eight migrants dead in tug-of-war between East and West New crisis at eastern border puts EU in a bind Wary Ukraine reinforces its border with Belarus WARSAW/BRUSSELS/VILNIUS, Nov 17 (Reuters) – The EU said on Wednesday it will send 700,000 euros worth of food, blankets and other aid to migrants at the Belarus border, after criticism it had done too little to help thousands of people trapped in frozen woods by an east-west feud. In a sign of European urgency to resolve what it calls an artificial border crisis created by Minsk, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by phone on Wednesday for the second time in three days to Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko. A day after Polish border guards used water cannon against migrants hurling stones, the situation at the frontier […]