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Wagner mercenaries who recently relocated to Belarus and have been training with the country’s armed forces want to infiltrate neighboring Poland, Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko warned Sunday.
“The Wagner guys have started to stress us. They want to go west. ‘Let’s go on a trip to Warsaw and Rzeszow,’” Lukashenko said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, according to the Polish Press Agency.
After conducting a failed mutiny in Russia late last month, Wagner mercenaries relocated to Belarus as part of a deal with Putin and Lukashenko to end the revolt. Since relocating, the Wagner fighters have been conducting training sessions with Belarusian troops just six miles from the border with Poland, raising concerns about Wagner Group’s potential to lash out against Warsaw.