Kremlin slams Warsaw for deploying troops to Belarus border

July 20, BPN. A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Warsaw of aggressive activities. The Kremlin has been alerted by the transfer of Polish military personnel to the border with Belarus, Dmitry Peskov said, as quoted by RIA Novosti.

Warsaw has repeatedly voiced concern about potential threats from Russia’s ally. The presidents of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland sent a letter to NATO urging it to respond, according to reports on July 7.

One day later, Poland’s defense minister announced the deployment of more than 1,000 soldiers and 200 vehicles to the country’s east.

Last week, senior Russian MP Andrey Kartapolov suggested that Moscow was sending the Wagner Group, a private military contractor, to Belarus in preparation for an offensive on the Suwalki Gap, a land link between Russia’s Kaliningrad and Belarus in the EU’s east.

The Wagner Group announced its relocation to Belarus in early July after a feud with the Russian defense ministry and a failed mutiny.

Officials in Minsk say its goal is to train the country’s soldiers.