Russian Wagner group is making ready “hybrid attack” on Polish territory from Belarus: Poland’s PM Morawiecki

On the twenty ninth of July, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki addressed a information convention throughout a go to to an arms manufacturing unit in Gliwice, in southern Poland – the place the place the Ukrainian military’s Leopard tanks endure repairs. While addressing the media personnel, the Polish PM warned that the state of affairs on the Polish – Belarusian border is getting more and more harmful.

He expressed considerations in regards to the hostile motion of Russia’s personal militia, Wagner mercenary forces inside Belarusian territory close to the Polish border. He claimed that the Wagner mercenaries are making ready a “hybrid attack” on Polish territory from the Belarusian facet and greater than 100 mercenaries had charged in direction of the slender however strategic Suwalki hole close to Grodno.  

Poland’s Prime Minister stated, “We have information that more than 100 Wagner mercenaries have advanced towards the Suwalki Gap, not far from Grodno in Belarus.”

Morawiecki claimed that the Wagner group will attempt to destabilise Poland via the inflow of unlawful immigrants and disguising themselves amongst these immigrants and infiltrating Polish territories.  

He stated, “They will probably be disguised as Belarusian border guards and will help illegal immigrants to enter Polish territory, and destabilise Poland, but they will also probably try to infiltrate Poland pretending to be illegal immigrants and this creates additional risks.”

Suwalki hall: The essential lacking hyperlink connecting the Russian mainland to its Baltic exclave by way of Belarusian territory

The Suwalki Gap is a really strategic stretch of Polish territory and is just 60 miles lengthy. It has equal strategic significance not just for NATO members notably Poland and Lithuania but in addition for Russia and its all-weather ally Belarus. It is located between Belarus and Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. 

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If this strategic land hall comes beneath Russian-ally Belarusian management via Wagner mercenaries or by different means, Russia’s solely exclave surrounded by NATO members can have the land hall for logistic necessities and meet any eventuality with NATO members in case of battle within the Baltic area, a territory removed from Russia’s mainland. 

The Polish authorities has alleged that greater than a thousand Wagner mercenaries have been stationed in Belarusian territory to realize its goal on this strategic Suwalki hall. 

Evidently, the present theatre the place the motion is supposedly going down is Grodno. It is situated within the west of Belarus simply 15km (9 miles) from its border with NATO members Poland and Lithuania. 

The heightened menace of unlawful migrants and Wagner Mercenaries publish Mutiny fall-out in Russia

Poland is a member of each the European Union (EU) and NATO. Still, it has been expressing considerations concerning its safety on the japanese border with Belarus. Polish authorities’s fears gained energy ever since Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko brokered peace to finish the short-lived Wagner’s rise up in Russia. 

As a part of the ‘peace deal’, Lukashenko gave refuge to the insurgent Wagner group and requested the mercenary group to coach his nation’s navy. Additionally, Wagner and Belarusian forces held joint navy workouts close to the border with Poland, rising safety considerations for the Polish facet. 

As a countermeasure, Poland moved greater than 1,000 troops to the japanese border earlier this month. 

In his press convention, Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki acknowledged that roughly 16,000 migrant makes an attempt to cross the border from Belarus had been documented this yr. He blamed Belarusian President Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin for pushing migrants via to Poland. 

The Polish authorities has alleged that Russia and Belarus have been utilizing migrants to destabilise Poland and different EU member nations. According to Poland, that is a part of hybrid warfare. Following the migrant row, Poland has constructed a excessive wall alongside a part of its border with Belarus.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, 30 July, RT reported that the Belarusian president Lukashenko advised Putin that the Wagner fighters have been eager to “go on tour to Warsaw”. The report added that the Wagner mercenaries need to settle a rating with these they consider have been offering Ukrainian troops with navy {hardware}.

Amid Poland-Belarus border row, Russia claimed that it foiled a Ukrainian “terrorist attack”

On Sunday, 30 July, the Russian Defence Ministry acknowledged that it has foiled a Ukrainian ‘terrorist attack’ on Crimea. The Ministry added that every one of Kyiv’s drones have been both downed by air defenses or neutralized by digital warfare. 

The Defence Ministry stated that the Russian forces have intercepted a Ukrainian assault on the Crimean peninsula involving 25 drones. However, no casualties or destruction in these drone raids have been reported. 

In a press release early on Sunday, the ministry stated Moscow had repelled “an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack with 25 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles” on services in Crimea.

According to the Russian Defence Ministry, 16 Ukrainian drones have been shot down by Russian air defenses whereas one other 9 have been suppressed by digital warfare. They crashed within the water close to Cape Tarkhankut within the western a part of the peninsula. 

Russian Ministry of Defence added that three drones have been intercepted in Moscow City in an tried assault on the enterprise and procuring improvement within the west of the Russian capital.  

In their assertion, the Ministry stated, “One Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was destroyed in the air by air defense forces over the territory of the Odintsovo district of Moscow region. Two more drones were jammed using electronic warfare capabilities and after losing control, they crashed on the territory of a complex of non-residential buildings in Moscow City.”

According to the Russian state information company TASS, there was a strike within the constructing of the “IQ-Quarter” situated in “Moscow City” (procuring middle). In the wake of those drone assaults, Russia needed to briefly shut its Vnukovo airport. 

Apart from drone assaults, Ukraine additionally launched typical missiles as part of its main offensive towards Russia on Saturday, 29 July.