A gaggle of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus has moved nearer to the Polish border and would possibly level a “hybrid assault” throughout the EU nation via posing as unlawful migrants, Poland’s High Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned.

Talking at a press convention in southern Poland on Saturday, Morawiecki stated that greater than 100 mercenaries had moved just about the town of Grodno, close to the Suwałki Hole — a slender strategic stretch of Polish and Lithuanian territory that separates Belarus from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

“They are going to most definitely be disguised as Belarusian border guards and can assist unlawful immigrants to go into Polish territory, destabilize Poland,” Morawiecki stated, in keeping with Polish public broadcaster TVP.

The Wagner contributors would additionally most likely “attempt to infiltrate Poland pretending to be unlawful immigrants,” he added, announcing the placement had turn out to be “extra bad.”

In 2021, Warsaw and Brussels accused the Belarusian govt and its Russian backers of searching for to sow instability on the fringe of the EU via transporting migrants to the Polish border.

Morawiecki stated the most recent trends have been “virtually unquestionably a step against an extra hybrid assault on Polish territory.”

An unknown selection of Wagner troops moved to Belarus from Russia underneath a deal to finish the gang’s 24-hour rebel in opposition to Moscow.

Ukraine’s border guard provider stated previous this month that it used to be assessing how most of the mercenaries had crossed into Belarus. Sooner than the short-lived coup, Wagner troops had shaped the principle drive preventing for the devastated Ukrainian town of Bakhmut.

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s professional social media channels reported that he had visited front-line troops within the Bakhmut house and met with army commanders.

Zelenskyy stated he may just no longer proportion main points on present operations. However an intelligence replace via the U.Ok.’s Ministry of Protection on Saturday showed an “uptick of preventing” in two sectors within the south of Ukraine previously two days, with the seize of the village of Staromaiorske within the Donetsk area.

Combating used to be additionally centered at the village of Robotyne, south of Orikhiv, within the Zaporizhzhia area, the U.Ok. ministry stated.