Polish Prime Minister: Wagner is extremely dangerous

Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki warned about the danger posed by Wagner, saying the group was trying to destabilize NATO's eastern flank.

"We need to be aware that provocations will increase. Wagner is extremely dangerous and they are being moved to the eastern flank to destabilize it," Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said after meeting Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausea in the eastern Polish city of Suwalki today.

Suwalki is a sparsely populated but strategically important area of ​​Polish territory, located between Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Western military strategists call it the Suwalki Corridor, or “NATO’s throat,” because if it were to be taken, three NATO members—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia—would be completely cut off from the rest of the bloc.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at a press conference in the southern city of Katowice on July 20. Photo: AFP

After the June 24 uprising in Russia, many gunmen from the Wagner private military group were transferred to Belarus, participating in a number of training activities and exercises with the country's army. Some Wagner members went to the training ground of the 38th Belarusian paratrooper brigade, outside the city of Brest, near the Polish border.

Lithuanian President Nausea said that more than 4,000 Wagner members may be present in Belarus. These are believed to be experienced fighters who played an important role in the attack on the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

"We need to discuss what measures to take if the situation becomes more complicated, including closing the border with Belarus," President Nauseda said. "This should be done synchronously between Poland, Lithuania and Latvia."

Location of Suwalki city and Suwalki corridor. Graphic: WSJ .

In July, Poland moved an additional 1,000 troops to its eastern region, fearing that the border situation would become more complicated with the presence of Wagner soldiers in Belarus.

Poland's prime minister said on July 29 that a group of 100 Wagner soldiers had moved to the Belarusian city of Grodno, near the border with Poland. Meanwhile, Anton Motolko, founder of the Hajun project that monitors military activity in Belarus, said the group had not collected any evidence that Wagner soldiers had arrived in Grodno.

Huyen Le (According to Reuters )

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