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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenkowill meet on Sunday with his Russian colleague, Vladimir Putinwhat will be their first meeting since the Belarusian leader brokered an end to the
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenkowill meet on Sunday with his Russian colleague, Vladimir Putinwhat will be their first meeting since the Belarusian leader brokered an end to the rebellion of the Wagner Group mercenaries, thousands of whom have already moved to the neighboring country.
The Kremlin said this Friday that during their meeting in Moscow, Putin and Lukashenko will discuss “topical issues of development of Russian-Belarusian relations and cooperation within the state unionbetween both countries.
Lukashenka already announced on June 27 that he would soon meet with Putin, with whom he would discuss, in addition to bilateral ties, the general opposition to Western sanctions, “international agenda and “security issues”his office said today.
Poland announced that it would redeploy military units to the border with Belarus in response to the presence of Mercenaries of the Wagner Group in a neighboring country.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private mercenary group | Photo: Reuters
In turn, Ukraine has strengthened measures to protect its own Belarusian border after the arrival of at least nine columns of Wagnerites in this country, which served as a springboard for Russian troops. shelling on February 24, 2022 in northern Ukraine.
On Friday, Putin warned Poland that an attack on Belarus would mean “aggression” against Russia, which has deployed tactical nuclear weapons in a neighboring country, its closest ally in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Lukashenka confirmed at the end of June that “most” of these weapons They are already on Belarusian territory.
He also assured that the Russian mercenaries were not going to guard the Russian tactical nuclear weapons, but would train the Belarusian forces, and that for this Minsk would regulate the role of the Wagnerites in the country by its decree or binding agreement.
The Belarusian investigative group Gayun, which monitors the military actions on the territory of Belarus, said last Tuesday that between 2,000 and 2,500 mercenaries were already in the country, although at least four more convoys have arrived since then.
This week, a member of the council of commanders of the Wagner group, nicknamed “Marx”, specified that 10,000 Wagnerites have already left or are going to Belarus.
While everyone is arriving, the special operations forces of the Belarusian Armed Forces are already conducting joint exercises with mercenaries of the Wagner group at the Brest military base, on the border with Poland.
On the 14th, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported that instructors Wagner began training recruits. and in a camp near the town of Osipovichi, 230 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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