A day after Minsk claimed the mercenaries were educating country’s soldiers southeast of the capital, Ukrainian and Polish officials stated on Saturday that fighters from the Wagner group had arrived in Belarus from Russia.
“Wagner is in Belarus,” Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian border agency, said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. He said the movement of “separate groups” from Russia had been observed in Belarus.
A video that the Belarusian defense ministry showed Wagner fighters advising Belarusian soldiers at a military range close to the village of Osipovichi.
Wagner’s relocation to Belarus was a component of a settlement that put an end to the group’s mutiny attempt in June, when they stormed Moscow and threatened to plunge Russia into civil war by seizing control of a military command post, according to President Vladimir Putin.
