Tiktok accounts promote migrant smuggling from Belarus and Russia to Latvia

This year alone, over 11,000 attempts to cross the border from Belarus into Latvia have been stopped.

Migrants are used as a tool in Belarus and Russia's hybrid war against the EU, to create chaos and conflict. This is according to the government of Latvia and the EU's border guard agency Frontex.

"Somalia - welcome to Latvia"

SVT has found accounts on Tiktok that promote migrant smuggling from Russia and Belarus, into the Baltics and on to other EU countries. The accounts share videos with text like "Somalia - welcome to Latvia", along with phone numbers.

A spokesperson for Tiktok confirms to SVT that it has noted the phenomenon, and that the platform during the first quarter of 2026 will have removed roughly 3.35 million videos in the category of human trafficking and human smuggling.

Some accounts SVT has found seem to target migrants, others are looking for drivers to drive them.

Posing as a migrant and a potential driver, SVT contacts several of the Tiktok accounts.

See how it goes in the video above.