Polish officials said Wednesday that Warsaw will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its border with Belarus as tensions between the two neighbors continue to rise.
Maciej Wasik, a Polish deputy interior minister, said the deployment was double what the border guard requested. One purpose of the deployment is to stem the tide of migrants crossing the border, which Warsaw blames on Minsk.
“If we had real border guards on the other side, and not smuggling services, these crossings would not exist at all,” Wasik said.
Poland has been beefing up its border since Wagner fighters traveled to Belarus following the short-lived mutiny against the Russian military establishment launched by the mercenary group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Polish officials estimate there are 4,000 Wagner members in Belarus. Last week, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki claimed the Russian mercenaries were sent to Belarus to “destabilize” NATO’s eastern flank and warned they could be planning “provocations.”
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has played into the Polish fears by claiming that Wagner fighters said they wanted to go to Poland. Wagner members also recently conducted drills near the Polish border.
The Polish-Belarusian border has become a potential flashpoint for a conflict between NATO and Russia as Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned he would treat an attack on Belarus as an attack on Russia.
NATO “needs” a 2 front war….
Because Ukraine is going so well?
“Poland to Send Additional 2,000 Troops to Belarus Border Poland has been beefing up its border since Wagner fighters entered Belarus”
Poland is about to get it’s tail kicked again for the fourth time in a hundred years.
It is a non-stop circus with Polish governments.. They are now responding with hysteria to the hysteria they created in the first place
LOL Well-written ……
“Poland to Send Additional 2,000 Troops to Belarus Border” if they can find it?
No one on Earth fears the “hyenas of Europe”. Poland like hyenas are cowardly scavengers who lurk around waiting for an actual predator to make the kill so they can posture and feed on the scraps.
The only thing Poland is know for is churning sausages. Cause that’s what they do when they get in the middle of Superpower squabble.
We should congratulate the Poles for providing a prime example why the eastward expansion of NATO is destabilizing.
Arming Poland is like giving a loaded pistol to a three year old.
The mask is off. The knives are out, and western delusional conquest of Russia is finally revealed.