A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday.

Poland, a former Warsaw Pact member which has been a full member of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance since 1999, has been concerned about the possible spillover of war on to its territory ever since Russian invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

  • Yellow_Cheese237@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What will happen if Wagner is trying to destabilise things near the Poland-Belarus border or do activities that normally would been seen as an act of war?

    Would NATO see this as an attack from Russia and/or Belarus or would they say it’s a private army/terrorist group that is not connected to a country and let Poland handle it?

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      1 year ago

      Stationed Polish soldiers would probably just wipe them in under 2 hours then move on.