Since there are plans to transfer the feared Russian Wagner mercenaries to Belarus, Poland now wants to secure its eastern border even more.
It is planned to increase the number of uniformed troops stationed there and increase the number of “various types of obstacles and fortifications to protect our border,” Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Wednesday night after a special session of a government security commission. and defense issues.
Migrant crisis of 2021
According to Kaczynski, Poland has information that up to 8,000 Wagner fighters could be sheltered in neighboring Belarus. EU and NATO member Poland shares a 418 kilometer border with Belarus. The situation there escalated in the late summer and autumn of 2021: thousands of people tried to enter the EU illegally.
The European Union accuses Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko of bringing migrants from crisis areas to the EU’s external border in an organized manner to put pressure on the West. Since then, Poland has secured the land parts of the border with a 5.5 meter high fence.
Prigozhin’s “March of Justice”
Meanwhile, the head of the Wagner troop, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had occupied the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday and then marched his fighters towards Moscow. Surprisingly, he gave up about 200 kilometers from the Russian capital. Lukashenko mediated in the conflict with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.
Putin assured Prigozhin and his mercenaries of impunity. According to Lukashenko, Prigozhin has now arrived in Belarus. Lukashenko has also offered mercenary army fighters a place in his country.
Source: Krone
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