{"id":47806,"date":"2023-07-29T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T11:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/polish-pm-says-over-100-russian-mercenaries-moving-closer-to-belarus-poland-border\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"polish-pm-says-over-100-russian-mercenaries-moving-closer-to-belarus-poland-border","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47806\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish PM says over 100 Russian mercenaries moving closer to Belarus-Poland border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t J<b>uly 29, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Warsaw has information that over 100 Wagner Group mercenaries are heading in the direction of Hrodna, a major Belarusian city at the border with Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The situation is growing more dangerous, he added noting that the move may be &#8220;a step towards a further hybrid attack on Polish territory.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Mercenaries may pose as Belarusian border guards and help illegal migrants to cross into Poland, the politician warned. They may also try to infiltrate Poland disguised as migrants, polsatnews.pl&nbsp;quoted Morawiecki as saying.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Warsaw may cut off all links to Belarus over security risks, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kami\u0144ski said on July 27 stressing that Belarus&#8217; western neighbors are ready to respond to any provocations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On the next day, Lithuania confirmed that Vilnius and Warsaw were considering a joint closure of borders with Belarus in case of serious border incidents involving Wagner Group mercenaries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka used his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to threaten Poland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In mid-July, Russian MP Andrey Kartapolov suggested that Moscow was sending the Wagner Group mercenaries to Belarus in preparation for an offensive on the Suwa\u0142ki Gap, a land link between Russia&#8217;s Kaliningrad and Belarus.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Russian mercenaries have been regularly arriving in Belarus since mid-July. Their numbers are estimated to be between 3,500 and 5,000 soldiers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 29, BPN. Warsaw has information that over 100 Wagner Group mercenaries are heading in the direction of Hrodna, a major Belarusian city at the border with Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said. The situation is growing more dangerous, he added noting that the move may be &#8220;a step towards a further hybrid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47806","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Polish PM says over 100 Russian mercenaries moving closer to Belarus-Poland border | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 29, BPN. 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