Presidents of Russia and Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin met in St. Petersburg. According to RIA Novosti, they are holding personal negotiations.
During the conversation, Lukashenka, in particular, told Putin that “the Wagnerites began to strain him (fighters of Wagner PMC – ed.)because they want to go to Warsaw. “Perhaps I shouldn’t have said it, but I will. The Wagnerites began to strain us: “I want to go to the West. Allow us.” I say, why do you need to go to the West? “Well, go on an excursion to Warsaw, to Rzeszow,” Lukashenka said.
He added that he “keeps them in the center, as agreed.” “Belarus would not like to relocate them there, because their mood is bad. And, we must pay tribute, they know what is happening around the Union State. Well, it’s so, a stroke,” Lukashenka added.
He also brought to the meeting with Putin a map of the transfer of Polish troops to the borders of the Union State, BelTA notes.
Earlier, at an operational meeting with the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Putin said that the Polish leaders “expect under the NATO umbrella to form a kind of coalition and directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine, in order to then tear off a bigger piece for themselves.”
On July 20, it was reported that the fighters of the Wagner private military company, together with the Belarusian army, were working out joint tasks at the Brestsky training ground near the border with Poland. As the Ministry of Defense of Belarus noted, the “Wagnerites” trained the military from the country’s territorial troops.
Recall that on June 23, the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced a “march of justice” against Moscow. In the Kremlin, this was regarded as an armed rebellion. The situation was resolved after negotiations with the participation of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko by the evening of June 24. Under the terms of the agreement, Yevgeny Prigozhin must leave for Belarus. After that, the Russian authorities dropped the criminal case on the rebellion and promised not to prosecute the PMC fighters. On June 29, President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin with Prigozhin and the commanders of the Wagner PMC.
Source: Rosbalt
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