crisis, encouraging its ally to distract the west while preparing military plans elsewhere in ukraine. >> i got to this migrant crisis, i can definitely say russia has nothing to do with it. >> but it was president putin, he tells me who set up telephone calls between the german and belarusian leaders this week, helping to diffusie the crisis and it needed diffusing. this was the scene when angry migrants tried to force their way to europe past polish border guards. the refusal of belarus to intervene fueled rumors they encouraged these attacks. >> the european union says that belarus has created this crisis to punish them in revenge for the sanctions that the eu is imposed against belarus for its crackdown on the opposition. how do you answer that allegation?