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In a veiled threat, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said members of the Wagner mercenary group would like to pay a visit to Poland.
In a meeting with Vladimir Putin on Sunday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko reportedly suggested that members of the Wagner mercenary group would like to pay a visit to Poland, in a veiled threat against a NATO country.
Lukashenko, who took in members of the Wagner Private Military Company following the dramatic and short-lived apparent coup attempt by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in June, suggested that the guns for hire may be interested in marching west to Poland, Russian state media RTAccording to the Belarusian strongman, the Wagner forces want to “go on tour to Poland” and pay a visit to the capital of Warsaw and the city of Rzeszow, which has become a Western military hub amid the war through which weapons and hardware are shipped to Ukraine. “They know where the military hardware [to support Ukrainian troops] came from during the fighting in Artyomovsk ,” Lukashenko continued in his meeting with Putin. “So they have this internal feeling that Rzeszow is trouble.” Following the alleged coup attempt by Prighozhin last month, President Putin offered the rank and file of Wagner with the option to either join the Russian military, retire, or relocate to Belarus. Since then, it has been reported that Wagner mercenaries are actively training Belarusian troops as well as conduction joint drills along the Polish border at the city of Brest. A Wagner commander claimed this week that some 10,000 of the groups fighters are set to be deployed to Belarus.
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