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The European Police Office Europol announced today that it has deployed teams on the borders with Hungary in neighboring countries to fight the transfer of criminals and "terrorists" trying to enter the EU along with the refugee flow, BTA reports.

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The aim is to protect the EU and refugees from criminal threats, the ministry said in a statement.

Russia has withdrawn some of its troops from the areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv

At the request of these countries, Europol is sending agents to Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova, and will soon send them to Hungary.

These teams, including experts from Europol and other experts, are assisting the country's authorities in the framework of secondary security controls and checks at the EU's external borders.

Their task is to gather information on the ground, to identify criminals and terrorists trying to infiltrate the EU with refugees, and to take advantage of the situation.

Secondary control is an important tool for managing the massive influx of refugees from Ukraine, Europol notes.

More than 4 million refugees have left Ukraine since Russia's invasion, according to UN figures.

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