Wagner mercenaries collect close to the Polish border
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ver 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved near the border with Poland, in line with the Polish prime minister.
Mateusz Morawiecki instructed a news convention the mercenaries had moved near the Suwalki Gap, a strategic stretch of Polish territory located between Belarus and Kaliningrad, a Russian territory separated from the mainland.
Poland is a member of each the European Union and NATO, and it has anxious about its security with Russian ally Belarus and Ukraine on its jap border.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki arrives for the plenary session of a summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-CELAC) at The European Council Building in Brussels on July 18, 2023.
/ AFP by way of Getty ImagesThose fears have grown since Wagner group mercenaries arrived in Belarus because the group’s short-lived revolt earlier this summer season.
The Poland-Belarus border has already been a tense place for a few years, ever since massive numbers of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa started arriving, searching for to enter the EU by crossing into Poland, in addition to Lithuania.
Poland’s authorities accuses Russia and Belarus of utilizing the migrants to destabilize Poland and different EU nations.
It calls the migration a type of hybrid warfare, and has responded by constructing a excessive wall alongside a part of its border with Belarus.
“Now the situation becomes even more dangerous,” Morawiecki instructed reporters.
He added “this is certainly a step towards a further hybrid attack on Polish territory.”
Morawiecki spoke throughout a go to to an arms manufacturing unit in Gliwice, in southern Poland, the place Leopard tanks utilized by the Ukrainian military are being repaired.