Polish PM claims more than 100 Wagner fighters moved towards its border with Belarus

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has revealed that more than 100 Wagner Group fighters stationed in Belarus are heading towards the Polish border, Wyborcza media outlet reports.

According to him, the mercenaries are moving towards the Suwałki Gap — a narrow strip of land between Belarus and Russia’s Kaliningrad region that runs along the Polish border. The prime minister believes that, once there, the Wagner fighters will help illegal migrants infiltrate Poland. Morawiecki does not rule out that the mercenaries will pretend to be migrants to attempt getting into Poland themselves.

“This is undeniably a step towards a further hybrid attack on Poland,” Morawiecki said.

Last week, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka flew into St. Petersburg where he complained to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the Wagner fighters who “went to Belarus” are “starting to stress [him] out”. According to him, the mercenaries are seeking to go on a “tour to Warsaw and Rzeszów. According to the Belarusian Hajun monitoring project, 13 convoys with hardware and vehicles which can belong to the Wagner Group have arrived in Belarus since 15 July.