Poland is reinforced with 500 riot police and special forces before the arrival of the Wagner group in Belarus

Government Polish announced this Sunday that due to the “tense situation” on the border with belarus It will reinforce the troops deployed there with half a thousand police officers from riot control units and anti-terrorist forces.

“Due to the tense situation on the border with Belarus, I have decided to strengthen our forces with a group of 500 police officers.”, declared the Minister of the Interior, Mariusz Kaminskythrough his Twitter account.

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“They will join the 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers protecting the security of the Polish border”, he added.

Poland’s Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski. (Photo by Radek Pietruszka / PAP)

The Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski It had already advanced last Wednesday that in response to the presence of the Russian mercenary group Wagner in belarus the border would be reinforced with both temporary and permanent measures.

As Kaczynski stated at the time, these would include increasing the number of troops stationed and installing additional obstacles and fortifications on the border between the two countries.

The Polish government has been warning for some time that the regime of Alexander Lukashenko could orchestrate”provocations” at the border on the occasion of the summit of the NATO in the neighbor Vilnius the next days July 11 and 12, instrumentalizing migrants who can travel to Belarus without a visa.

This Friday, the Vice Minister of Defence, Wojciech Skurkiewiczhe ventured the possibility that Wagner’s mercenaries camouflage themselves among the groups of migrants who try to cross the polish border wave lithuanian border.

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The Polish border guard reported that this Saturday it has registered 187 attempts at irregular entry by citizens of Somalia and Iranamong other countries of origin.

In response to Wagner’s presence in Belarus, which follows the group’s leader’s thwarted mutiny, Yevgeny Prigozhinthe three Baltic countries –Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania– have strengthened security at their borders. Latvia has also taken the step of completely suspending visa applications for Russian citizens.

Source: Elcomercio