Poland Doubles Military Size, Beefs Security Of Border With Russian Ally As Wagner Threat Looms

Warsaw has made securing the European Union’s border with Russian ally Belarus a top priority, as per Poland’s deputy PM. The frontier has become more dangerous because of Russia’s military presence in neighboring Belarus, Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said. Kaczynski made the comments while visiting the village of Koden on the EU’s border with Belarus on July 27.On the same day, the Polish defense minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, met with troops serving on the border, in Polowce. Meanwhile, Russian reservist Col-Gen Andrey Kartapolov, said earlier this month that Wagner forces could be deployed to the Suwalki Corridor. The Sulwaki Corridor is the West’s only land link to the three ex-Soviet Baltic republics - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Gaining control of the corridor would give Russia a land link between the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus.