Bosnia and Herzegovina, a small Balkans country is facing unprecedented influx of migrants coming from some Asian and North African countries. The UN International Organization for Migration estimates over 20,000 people used Bosnia and Herzegovina as their transit route to the EU this year and that number is rapidly rising. The country's western region has been affected the most. And that's where our Aljosa Milenkovic sends this report.  

An amazing scenery in western Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beautiful mountains under the morning mist at the border with Croatia. As migrants who are trying to avoid border authorities try to negotiate other paths to the EU.

These are the pictures at the border crossing beneath those mountains, from few days ago, when migrants tried to break police lines and enter Croatia. Some migrants clashed with Bosnian police and made their way to the border but Croatian police stopped them from entering the country. Since then, migrants have erected tents camp in the middle of the road and are blocking this border crossing.

Both Bosnian and Croatian riot police are now guarding them around the clock, hoping to prevent any further incidents. The stalemate continues but the local citizens from Velika Kladusa are not happy with that at all.

EKREM KUDIC VELIKA KLADUSA CITIZEN "People here suffer a lot of damage due to this - migrant crisis. And nobody has given any order for these people to be moved from the border crossing so our businesses could work normally. Tourism, transportation, trade, everything has stopped now."

BENJAMIN DZEFEROVIC VELIKA KLADUSA CITIZEN "It's really bad. Bad. They've closed our border, so we have to use alternative crossings which are far away. They are engaged in burglaries and we have a lot of problems with them. There were physical confrontations with them and people were stabbed here."

Just few days ago citizens here demanded police action to open a vital border crossing and migrants to be sent back to Sarajevo. But the central authorities didn't show too much interest in doing that. In the same time, another makeshift camp was erected at the outskirts of the town.

ALJOSA MILENKOVIC VELIKA KLADUSA "In these appalling conditions just outside Velika Kladusa, several hundred migrants have been stranded for quite some time. Their only shelter comes from improvised and makeshift tents they've brought along. But yet they refuse to go back to Sarajevo, because their only goal is to cross the border into Croatia into the EU."

People in the camp we spoke with don't show any signs of willingness to give up their goals of reaching the EU, despite a number of obstacles.

MUHAMMAD MIGRANT FROM KABUL, AFGHANISTAN "Yes, we want to go. Last time they caught us and they bring us here, and now we are here. And here is the situation is not good for life."

That situation for them might become even worse since the winter is just around the corner, and it can be quite severe here. Aljosa Milenkovic, CGTN, Velika Kladusa.