Poland and Baltic countries demand Belarus to expel the Wagner group

Poland and the Baltic countries demanded on Monday belarus to expel the Russian group of mercenaries Wagnerannounced the Polish Minister of the Interior, Mariusz Kaminsky.

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“We have asked the regime (of the Belarusian president Alexander) lukashenko immediately expel the wagner group of belarus”, declared the Polish minister after a meeting with his counterparts from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

the men of Wagner They are on Belarusian soil after the brief and failed mutiny that they staged at the end of June against the leadership of the Russian army.

According to warsawthousands of mercenaries from the wagner group they are in belarusa country allied with Moscow and border with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia and Lithuaniathese last three members of the EU and of the NATO.

lukashenko recently said that he wants to keep up to 10,000 members of the organization in the country, whose leader and founder, Yevgeny Prigozhinonce close to the Kremlin, died on Wednesday in Russia when his plane crashed.

kaminski argued the request emphasizing that among those thousands of mercenaries there are “released criminals of Russian prisons in exchange for the promise to participate in the war of Ukraine”.

“It is an important group, capable of anything”, insisted the Polish minister, who said that these men “must leave our region, because the international security so requires. We fear incidents, including armed incidents with the participation of these mercenaries”.

Source: Elcomercio

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