NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that not many members of Russia’s Wagner Group followed their exiled leader to Belarus.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is now living in exile in Belarus after his short-lived mutiny, and other members of the force were given the option of going there as well. Wagner members also had the option of signing contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry or going home to their families.
Poland has called for a “tough response” from NATO to counter any Wagner presence in Belarus, but Stoltenberg said he hasn’t seen the mercenary force go there. “We have seen some preparations for the hosting of Wagner forces,” Stoltenberg told POLITICO. “We have so far not yet seen so many of them arriving.”
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who brokered the deal that ended Prigozhin’s mutiny, has said that he’s ready to “accommodate” Wagner fighters who choose to go to his country. But it’s still unclear how many will wind up there.
Stoltenberg stressed that it was too early to tell what will become of Wagner. He said the group is still active in Africa and that some fighters are still in Ukraine but not near the frontlines. Wagner fighters fought in the brutal 10-month battle of Bakhmut and withdrew after capturing the city at the end of May.
Really? And what business is it of NATO (specifically, of the US, which will be expected to carry 90% of everyone’s load) just who Lukashenko invites into Belarus?
The US started the mess in US interests, Europeans are carrying the water and pay the price for it. so far the US MIC is making huge profits, they see no need to end the brutal men slaughter and the annihilation of Ukraine and most likely Europe.
Poland has called on tough actions against Belarus for hosting Wagner.
Is this the same Poland that hosts CIA Black Sites, that wants NATO to get tough on countries who host criminals?
Ok, fine with me, let’s apply that same standard everywhere for any group who has committed war crimes. The US military would have to leave how many nations?
Honestly, lets please apply this evenly everywhere, the world would be a better place.
As it stands Poland of course has no right to ask for or complain about anything in regards to Wagner.
The Polish government is is a sewer overflowing with vicious hate.
Stiltonberg’s a useless tool.
I agree with the “tool” part. But he serves his purpose for those who want forever war.
But the end of NATO and EU is near.
I sure hope so!
A US LACKEY
About 75% of Wagner fighters refused to participate in the mutiny from the beginning. Those who followed Prigozhin, were also disappointed. Most of them were involved in the mutiny by deceit. Lukashenko knows about that. He doesn’t consider Wagner as something dangerous for Belarus.
Do you have a source to that 75% claim that is not the Kremlin?
it was visibly not a real earnest mutiny or a serious regime change. It was all over and done with within hours.
Oh, great. Your opinion was all the source I needed.
So what, you follow the government narrative without questions asked. So your opinion is pretty predictable and so are your MSM sources.
There was no mutiny.
Also, Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman.
Come on Thomas, Scott Ritter is not all knowing.
It was a real mutiny. About 8000 Wagner fighters rebelled against the state authorities. It was unsuccessful because no one military unit supported them.
Whoever told you that, was smoking hookah and blowing smoke.
Poland will not rest. Poland will not stop. Until they prove Darwin right and win the Darwin award for all of us. …What’s that? I’m racist. No, I was speaking about the human race. All of us humans would prove we’re not the fittest. It’s probably the cockroaches. (Sarcasm alert)
Not supposing, since Prighozin isn’t in Belarus either. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-leader-lukashenko-says-prigozhin-is-back-russia-2023-07-06/
Reuters is citing Belarus as source. At this point, who knows where Prighozin is at.
We’re at the point where nothing said about this horrible conflict is believable. We know for a fact that Victoria “f-ck the EU” Nuland and her merry band of US neocons were doing a lot more than passing out cookies on Maidan Square in 2014. We know for a fact that their centuries-old abiding hatred of Russia is the main driver behind the current conflict. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the USA and NATO are also in their sights as those sanctions have left Europe an economic basket case and the USA wallowing in debt that will never be paid. We are anxiously waiting for the next shoe to drop that will turn this conflict into a catastrophic war that will be the end of the USA, Russia, and most of the human race.
The irrational inmates in the Washington insane asylum are the real nuclear global danger, they are unpredictable. In Moscow Putin’s people are rational and level headed, they know in a nuclear war no one can really win, but the irrational Russophobes in Washington believe a nuclear war is winnable for the invincible USA. That is really scary when the country is in the hands of deranged old man and irrational Russophobe advisors and a cowardly lawless congress.
On the bright side, nuclear winter will be the cure for global warming.
LOL. It’s like my Dad used to say, “you want something to cry about?”
It only appears as insanity until you find out who’s making a lot of money from death and destruction abroad; and there’s no end in sight.
I think the greedy wealthy for profit political/corporate establishment is insane. There is not one person with character and moral standing speaking up against the Biden administration. To think about this, no voice of opposition in congress as far as I know, not one. The Christian warriors are funding the slaughter of a nation and block every attempt to negotiate an end to it. Biden, after Kennedy, the second Catholic in the WH.
What a difference, like day and night. Kennedy wanted peace and was assassinated and deranged Biden is a warmonger and should resign or be impeached.
Kennedy betrayed the Bay of Pigs Cubans, and put Jupiter missiles in Turkey causing the Soviets to put them in Cuba in retaliation. I don’t understand the Kennedy devotion in the electorate, he was a disaster. He also did his part in escalating the Vietnam war, as did every POTUS starting with Truman, and there’s absolutely no evidence he wouldn’t have done what LBJ did if he had not been killed. Policy spans all administrations as we see today. And, the policy is profits for the war industry which come back as campaign donations to Wash. Until lobbying is outlawed (HA!) endless wars will continue; it’s all about money.