Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Russian mercenaries were moving in Belarus toward the border with Poland to carry out 'hybrid warfare.'
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at press conference in Katowice, Poland on July 20, 2023. Morawiecki spoke out Saturday about Russian Wagner mercenaries nearing the border.
Thousands of Russian mercenaries have reportedly relocated to Belarus since last month’s short-lived rebellion orchestrated by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who made his first public sighting since the failed-coup just days ago while attending an Africa summit in Russia Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian President Vladimir Putin during a conversation last weekend that he would keep the Wagner mercenaries in central Belarus. "They are asking to go west... to go on a trip to Warsaw," Lukashenko told Putin, referencing Poland’s capital city."But of course, I am keeping them in central Belarus, like we agreed."
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