Mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner group will help train Belarusian special forces during military exercises organized near the border between Belarus and Poland, the defense ministry in Minsk said on Thursday, as cited by Reuters and Agerpres.

In a video broadcast on Wednesday, the man who is the head of Wagner’s group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, welcomes Wagner’s fighters as they arrive in Belarus, telling them they will not participate in the war in Ukraine yet and ordering them to prepare for missions in Africa.

“The Armed Forces of Belarus are continuing joint training with the fighters of the “Wagner” military command center,” the Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported later.

“During the week, units of the Special Operations Forces, together with representatives of the “Wagner” PMC, will perform training and combat tasks in the area of ​​the Brest Military District,” he added.

Earlier this month, Poland announced it would send 500 anti-terrorist police officers to beef up border security with Belarus amid a surge in migrants trying to enter Poland and potential threats from Wagner mercenaries in Belarus.

In a few days, the Polish army announced that it would send more than 1,000 soldiers to the border with Belarus.

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Did Wagner’s mercenaries arrive in Poland without Yevgeny Prigozhin?

The armed rebellion of Wagner’s group was stopped when the mercenaries advanced to Moscow under an agreement between Prigozhin and the Kremlin, brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

According to the agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the mercenaries three options: return home, leave for Belarus, or sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense and report to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

The Kremlin also promised the mercenaries and their boss that they would not be prosecuted.

But Yevgeny Prigozhin’s fate is still shrouded in mystery, as the video released a day ago of him giving instructions to Wagner’s mercenaries who arrived in Belarus is not at all clear, as is what he really did to the person in the photographs. .

On July 10, the Kremlin confirmed that Prigozhin had arrived in Moscow some time after the uprising was put down for “negotiations” with President Putin along with his mercenary commanders.

On July 14, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported that the mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMC have started training their soldiers.

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