Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki claimed on Thursday that Wagner fighters were deployed to Belarus in an attempt to “destabilize” bordering NATO countries, which the alliance refers to as its eastern flank.
Morawiecki called the Russian mercenary force “extremely dangerous” and said it had been “being redeployed to NATO’s eastern flank to destabilize it.” He estimated there could be more than 4,000 Wagner members in Belarus.