A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday.
Founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin.have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday.
Earlier this month, Poland began moving more than 1,000 troops to the east of the country amid rising concerns that the presence of“The situation is getting increasingly dangerous. Most likely they will be disguised as the Belarusian border guard and help illegal migrants get to the Polish territory destabilise Poland,” Morawiecki says at a press conference in Gliwice, western Poland.
However, he did not give the source of his information on the Wagner movements, and Anton Motolko, founder of the Belarusian opposition Hajun project which monitors military activity in the country, told Reuters his group had not seen any evidence of the Wagner group moving closer to Grodno. Earlier in July, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was shown in a video welcoming his fighters to Belarus, telling them they would take no further part in the Ukraine war for now but ordering them to gather their strength for Africa – where they are involved in a number of conflicts – while they train the Belarusian army.
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