Wagner fighters trying to unsettle NATO’s eastern flank, Polish PM says – National | 24CA News
Fighters from Russia’s personal Wagner mercenary power are being moved near NATO’s jap flank to destabilize the navy alliance, Poland’s prime minister stated on Thursday.
Wagner troopers have begun coaching with the Belarus nationwide military, prompting Poland to start out shifting greater than 1,000 troops nearer to the border. On Tuesday it accused Belarus of violating its airspace with navy helicopters.
“We need to be aware that the number of provocations will rise,” Mateusz Morawiecki stated after assembly Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda in jap Poland.
“The Wagner group is extremely dangerous and they are being moved to the eastern flank to destabilize it.”
The politicians met within the Suwalki Gap, a sparsely populated however strategically essential space of Polish territory between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad that joins the Baltic states to different NATO members.
Nauseda stated the variety of Wagner fighters in Belarus may very well be larger than 4,000.
“We must not only talk about measures at the national level but also … what should be done if this situation becomes even more complicated, including the closure of the border with Belarus,” Nauseda stated.
“This should be done in a coordinated manner between Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.”
Belarus allowed Russian President Vladimir Putin to make use of its territory as a launch pad for the Ukraine invasion, however has not dedicated its personal troops to the warfare.
