Belarus rejected Poland’s claims, said – Wagner Group had arrived to train our army.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday denied Poland’s claim that about 100 soldiers of the Wagner Group have reached the Poland and Lithuania border.
Lukashenko rejected the claim.
Belarus President Lukashenko said, “I suddenly heard the other day that Poland is alarmed that allegedly a group of 100 soldiers is coming here.”
No PMC Wagner unit with a capacity of 100 people has come here and if they did If so, they did this only to give the troops stationed in Brest and Grodno experience in combat.
Training of Belarusian soldiers with Wagner.
Let us tell you that after Belarus signed an agreement with Russia to formalize the deployment of strategic nuclear missiles, Belarus is looking to rearm its military with Wagner Group.
I need to train my own military personnel, because an army that doesn’t fight is half an army, Lukashenko said. Wagner is here to share his experience.
Poland had claimed about Wagner.
Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki claimed on 29 July that more than 100 soldiers from Russia’s private army Wagner were seen between Poland and Lithuania.
The Polish PM said his government had received information that Wagner’s troops had been seen near the city of Grodno in western Belarus. Explain that thousands of Wagner soldiers are in Belarus after a failed military coup in Russia.