Fears have grown along Ukraine’s northern border about the potential for new military attacks since Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries relocated to Belarus after last month’s short-lived mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership.
YUROVE, Ukraine — Fears have grown along Ukraine’s northern border about the potential for new military attacks since Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries relocated to Belarus after last month’s short-lived mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership, with Ukraine — and even Poland — tightening security and stepping up defenses.
Poland has also strengthened its eastern defenses after Prigozhin arrived in Belarus and his mercenaries launched joint military training exercises with Belarusian security forces near the Belarusian border city of Brest, the Polish Defense Ministry said in a post on Twitter. On Sunday, Putin also met the Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, who has effectively turned his country into a Russian client state. Lukashenko was credited by the Kremlin with brokering the truce that halted Prigozhin’s “march for justice” against Russia’s military leaders.
Recent satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies also show what appears to be a Wagner garrison in Tsel, a village southeast of Minsk that is less than 150 miles from the Ukrainian border. Now, the border station is overgrown with weeds. On the morning of Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians blew up the bridge carrying vehicle traffic over the Dnieper River, about 500 meters from Slavutych. A parallel railroad line was blown up, too, and mines were strewn throughout the nearby woods.
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