Local media in Poland and Belarus have reported sightings of more than 100 Wagner mercenaries moving towards the Suwałki Gap—a thin strip of land that is the border between NATO members Poland and Lithuania, but is flanked by Belarusian and Russian land on each side.
The news comes after the Belarusian Defense Ministry confirmed earlier this month that the Russian mercenary group had teamed up with Belarusian troops to share their ruthless tactics, with Wagner bosses declaring a a new “beginning” for the group in that country.
A map highlighting the Suwałki Gap—the strategically-important 60-mile border between Poland and Lithuania, flanked by Russian and Belarusian land, that connects NATO’s baltic members to the rest of its allies by land. The border is highlighted in red.
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Morawiecki previously said he thinks Belarus, a key Russia ally, has been sending migrants to the Polish border en masse to overwhelm its forces there. Now, he fears, Russia’s next strategy could be to sneak mercenaries into Poland amid the allegedly orchestrated chaos at the border. . .
Experts studying Russia, NATO and Eastern European conflicts have long identified the Suwałki Gap as the most likely inflection point if Russia were to instigate a war with NATO. For Putin, securing the corridor wouldn’t just isolate the Baltic states, it’d provide long-craved protection to the south of Kaliningrad—Russia’s strategic enclave on the Baltic Sea, which is surrounded entirely by NATO nations. The port city is also home to Russia’s all-important Baltic Fleet.
Poland's prime minister says more than 100 troops from the Russian Wagner mercenary group are moving toward a thin strip of land between Poland and Lithuania, and warned they could help migrants cross ...
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The Poland-Belarus border has already been a tense place for a couple of years, ever since large numbers of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa began arriving, seeking to enter the EU by ...
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