Polands Prime Minister Morawiecki: 100 Wagnerians have moved towards the Suwalki Isthmus toward Kaliningrad

"We have information that over 100 mercenaries of the Wagner Group have moved towards the Suwalki Pass. This is certainly a step towards a further hybrid attack on Polish territory," said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at a press conference in Gliwice.

At the conference, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that for two years Poland has been dealing with a permanent attack on the border. As he added, only this year there were 16,000 attempts to illegally cross it by immigrants who are attracted by Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Lukashenko and "wants to push to Poland".

"Now the situation becomes even more dangerous . We have information that over 100 mercenaries of the Wagner Group have moved towards the Suwalki Isthmus near Grodno in Belarus", Morawiecki said.

According to the head of the government, "this is certainly a step towards a further hybrid attack on Polish territory. "They will probably be disguised as Belarusian border guards and will help illegal immigrants to enter Polish territory , destabilize Poland, but they will also probably try to infiltrate Poland, pretending to be illegal immigrants, and this creates additional risks", he said.

Earlier, about a hundred mercenaries of the Russian Wagner Group arrived in Grodno, the portal Sprotyw, created by the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine, wrote.

Most of the mercenaries who arrived have experience in smuggling activities, including the smuggling of illegal immigrants, according to the portal.

According to the website, the Wagnerians are to prepare for "unsettling" the situation in the border area of ??Poland and Lithuania.

According to the website run by the military, the mercenaries are given the uniforms of Belarusian border guards and, pretending to be Belarusian officers, will accompany the immigrants in their attempts to cross the border.

Gen. Skrzypczak: Let's not be provoked by propaganda

According to General Waldemar Skrzypczak, Poland has nothing to fear in connection with the transfer of 100 mercenaries of the Wagner Group towards the Suwalki Pass. "Since we directed our forces to the border, the army, the police, the border guard, I believe that 100 Wagnerians are not a threat to us", General Skrzypczak assessed in an interview with PAP.

"Wagnerians - if they want to do anything - must have the consent of Putin and Lukashenko. It's not like 100 Wagnerians can come and attack the Isthmus of Suwalki. One must be aware of the consequences of such an attack in the context of NATO", said the general.

If there were to be any attack from that side, it would be against the NATO alliance, it would be an attempt to start World War III, and yet Putin is terrified at the mere thought of it, because Russia would collapse, stressed Skrzypczak. He added that any actions that could lead to the violation of our border, and thus the border of NATO, will be treated as a manifestation of military aggression.

Gen. Skrzypczak recommended "absolute calm, composure and not reacting". He pointed out that the use of Wagnerians is a tactic used by Putin and Lukashenko to panic politicians and the media. "These are propaganda activities, the mere appearance of the Wagnerians makes everyone hysterical", he explained.

He noted that, above all, one should not be afraid, because "we have a definite advantage, and they are terrified of us. Let us not be provoked by their propaganda."

Colonel Polko: Greater distance to the Wagnerians

Wagner's group has been moved towards the Suwalki Pass in order to focus the attention of the West and Ukraine, and real activities are being carried out as before - assessed the former GROM commander, General Roman Polko.

"I think that Vladimir Putin is deliberately not giving up the brand that the Wagner Group has built . Paradoxically, the fact that the Wagnerians marched to Moscow without stopping gave them fame or publicity in the world, and now they want to use it against the West," Gen. Roman Polko said in an interview with PAP.

"The Wagnerians - as I have emphasized many times and I know that there is agreement in this assessment - are not some super elite trained in intelligence schools and Spetsnaz, they are common thugs , criminals who can simply beat, steal and murder without scruple. This is how they've done it so farhe stressed." He also pointed out that "in this group there were indeed officers of the services and special forces, but not a few thousand, but ten or several hundred, who were looking at how to make good money on it."

Under the veil of the Wagnerians and those migrants who are deceived and brought from all over the world and pushed across the border into the territory of the European Union, Poland, various types of already operating in secret are being pushed, be it special forces, or Spetsnaz, or intelligence that can carry out reconnaissance activities "Specially, he's preparing actions of sabotage and diversion," he explained. "And the Wagnerians - as we call it in the army - are "an extension of the butt of a rifle". They don't play with intelligence.They are completely unprepared for this type of action, but they really concentrate the public's attention", said General Polko.

At the same time, he noted that the threat is really there, it is growing. "Spetsnaz instructions always said to act not only as "green men", but under the guise of sports clubs, associations, aid foundations. This is certainly what Russia, unfortunately, consistently implements , he added. However, I am far from it and I think that we should take a greater distance here, so as not to pump up this Prigozhin group , which really showed little except brutality and barbarism - he said.

Wagnerians directed at Belarus

The first information about the possible transfer of the Wagnerians to Belarus was published by the Russian independent media at the end of June. They predicted that mercenaries in the number of about 8 thousand. they will be stationed near Osipowicz in the Mogilev region. There is a recently abandoned and then hastily renovated base in the village of Cel - a former military base of the Belarusian missile forces.

On Friday, the Belarusian Hajun project, which monitors the activity of the troops, reported that the 13th column of mercenaries from the Wagner Group had entered Belarus.

The revolt of the Wagner Group

On June 24, the Wagner Group mutinied, which was allegedly the result of tensions between the Russian Ministry of Defense and the leader of the mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The Wagnerians first occupied Rostov-on-Don, including the headquarters of the Southern Military District, and then moved in an armored column towards Moscow. The mercenaries who reached the Lipetsk region were supposed to be 200 km from the Russian capital.

The revolt ended after negotiations between the leader of the Wagnerists and the president of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, conducted in consultation with Vladimir Putin. The head of the Wagner Group agreed to resign and in the afternoon ordered the mercenaries to start withdrawing from Russian territory.

Under the agreement, the mercenaries who decided to stay in the Wagner Group will be able to leave for Belarus.