The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, has stated that “Ukraine keeps the activities of mercenaries in Belarus under close control”, referring to the more than 2,000 members of the Russian private military company Wagner who reportedly arrived this week in Belarusian territory.
In a message posted on Telegram about the issues to be discussed at his meeting this Friday with state security officials, Zelensky said he expected to receive reports from military intelligence, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Border Guard about the presence of Russian mercenaries there.
After leading the capture of Bakhmut in the Ukrainian war, the Wagner group rebelled against the Russian Army on June 23, after accusing it of sabotaging the mercenaries and even bombing their camps.
Wagner’s leader finally agreed to withdraw with the mercenaries who followed him to neighboring Belarus, after the intervention in the crisis of the president of that country, an ally of Russia in the war against Ukraine, Alexandr Lukashenko.
Belarus borders Ukraine to the south, and also has borders with Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, which raises fears about possible actions by the Wagners who have moved there against Ukrainian territory or those three countries of the European Union.
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