Cautious about the influx of mercenary Russian Wagner troops into neighboring Belarus, Poland announced it will deploy at least 10,000 troops along its 250-mile border with the Kremlin ally, ABC News reports. It will start with shifting 2,000 troops to the region in the next two weeks.
The repositioning of Polish troops comes as NATO forces monitor the movement of Wagner troops between Belarus and the Kaliningrad Oblast, a disconnected portion of Russian territory sitting on the Baltic Sea but surrounded entirely by Poland and Lithuania. Polish and Lithuanian officials have expressed concern that Wagner troops were using their transit of the Suwalki Gap to infiltrate troops into the NATO countries.