Poland strengthens the border with Belarus to contain the threat from migrants and Wagner

Poland will send 500 police officers to strengthen his border with Belarus, as it is afraid of increasing migration and possible threats from the Wagner group at the relocation.

According to the Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski, the armed forces would secure the border together with 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers.

he tweeted: "Due to the tense location on the border with Belarus, I decided to strengthen our armed forces with 500 Polish police officers from prevention and terrorist control units."

Warsaw accuses Minsk of artificially causing a refugee crisis at the border since 2021 by flown in by people from the Middle East and Africa and trying to push them across the border.

According to the Polish border protection, 187 people tried to travel illegally from Belegal to Poland on Saturday, and the number has risen steadily in recent months, even though it is significantly below the level of 2021.

lieutenant Anna Michalska, spokeswoman for the Polish border protection, said that the border patrols in the past two months have been exposed to more aggressive behavior in the past two months.

she said: "The groups are more aggressive. There were many attacks on Polish patrols. This year 17 vehicles were damaged, 13 of them in June alone."

Stanislaw Zaryn, deputy minister of special services in Poland, told Reuters that the increased security presence was also a reaction to the laying of Wagner mercenaries to Belarus.

The decision of Vladimir Putin's opportunity to give Wagner troops the opportunity to move to Belarus has aroused fears with the eastern NATO members that their presence will lead to greater instability in the region.

Mr. Zaryn said: "There is still a question of analysis and hypotheses as to whether the Wagner group will participate in the destabilization of Poland and also actively participate in the coordination of the migration route."

"We assume that the Wagner will not travel to Belarus for recovery, but to fulfill a mission. This mission could be directed against Poland, but also against Lithuania or Ukraine."