By Sabine Siebold, Pawel Florkiewicz and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS/WARSAW/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The European Union will step up sanctions against Belarus, which on Monday denounced as “absurd” Western accusations that it was driving a migrant crisis that has left up to 4,000 people stranded in freezing forests on its border with Poland. EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to agree on further measures pressuring Belarus, where veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko cracked down on protesters challenging as fraudulent a presidential vote in which he had claimed victory. The 27-nation EU sla…

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