Lukashenko assures that the Wagner group in Belarus wants to advance to Poland

The president of belarus, Alexander Lukashenkotoday expressed concern that the mercenaries of the wagner group who are located in their country want to advance until warsaw due to the support of Poland to the Ukrainian Army.

“Maybe I shouldn’t say it, but I will. The Wagnerites have begun to worry us. “We want to go to the West, give us permission.” And I tell them, why do you want to go to the West? ´To make an excursion to warsawto rzeszow´”, Lukashenko said at the beginning of the meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putinin the Palace of Constantine in St. Petersburg.

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Lukashenko assured his colleague that Minsk will keep the Wagnerites at the base of Mogilev as agreed after the failed armed rebellion led by said group a month ago and that will not allow them to move, since their “mood is bad”.

“(Although) It must be recognized that they know what is happening around the state union“, he pointed.

He stressed that Russian mercenaries fought in the city of bakhmut against Ukrainian units equipped with Western weapons that arrived by plane at the Polish airfield in rzeszow.

In turn, he claimed that Poland has deployed a brigade some 40 kilometers from the city of Brest and another one a hundred kilometers from grodnowhen before those units were located about 500 kilometers from Belarusian territory.

Lukashenko was also opposed to the alleged Warsaw plans denounced by Moscow on the occupation of western Ukrainean option that he considered “unacceptable”.

Under the agreement that ended the June 23-24 uprising, Wagner’s boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin agreed to move to belaruswhile the mercenaries had two options: return to their homes, accompany him or subordinate themselves to the Ministry of Defense.

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After several weeks of uncertainty, on July 14 the Belarusian Ministry of Defense announced the arrival of the first Wagner columns.

This week, on July 19, Prigozhin posted a video from Belarus welcoming the mercenaries, assuring them that they will return to Africaalthough he did not rule out a future return to the battlefield in Ukraine.

During their stay, the Russian mercenaries will turn the Belarusian Army into the “second in the world”, Prigozhin predicted, and “If necessary and necessary, we will come to your defense”, he added.

The next day, the Belarusian Armed Forces reported joint training with the Wagnerites on the border with Poland, which immediately announced the dispatch of two military units to the area.

In total, there are now a few thousand mercenaries in the former Soviet republic, although Wagner estimates that that number will soon reach 10,000.

Wagner maintains that there are currently 25,000 mercenaries.”alive and well”, to which are added the wounded who are recovering.

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The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to the country after Putin’s remarks during the meeting of the Russian Security Council on Friday.

Then, Putin assured that the Polish western regions had been “a gift from Stalin” and warned Warsaw that an attack on Minsk would mean an aggression against Russia.

Source: Elcomercio

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