<span style="color: #222222;">Western members of the UN Security Council have condemned Belarus for the escalating crisis over migrants stranded on its border with Poland. In a strongly worded statement, they accused Belarus of using the migrants to destabilize the European Union's eastern border. Russia, Belarus's main ally, rejected the accusations. Earlier, Belarus's authoritarian leader threatened to cut off gas supplies to Europe, if new sanctions were imposed.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Thousands of people, many of them Kurds arriving from West Asia, are camping at the border with Poland, enduring freezing conditions in the hope of crossing into the EU. </span>