Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that Wagner's militant group had put pressure on the country to enter Poland.
Meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Sunday, Lukashenko said: "Wagner forces have put us under pressure. They say: we want to go west. Allow us to do this. I asked them why do you want to go to the west and they said we want to go to Warsaw, Rzeszów."
Lukashenko said he would keep Wagner forces in Belarus' capital according to the agreement between the government and the military group. He stressed: "Belarus does not want to move the Wagner Group near the Polish border."
After the rebels in late June, the Wagner forces were transferred to Belarus through Lukashenko's mediation; they are reportedly training Belarusian forces.
The comments by Lukashenko may be deemed, in fact, as a sort of warning to Poland which has deployed its military forces near the Belarussian borders and offered military helps to the West-affiliated Kyiv government to prolong the war against Russia.
Poland has historical animosity towards Russia and is now pursuing it through a proxy war in the Ukrainian-Russian war.
The US-led NATO's measures in full support of Ukraine, especially the arms support, after the NATO summit in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, have entered a new phase. NATO's military aid to Ukraine played a key role in the recent counterattack on the eastern fronts against Russia.
As Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says, since June 4, the Ukrainian army has lost over 26,000 forces and more than 3,000 military warfare. Even the Western media acknowledged that the Ukrainian counterattack is going on slower than expected, with the military experts warning that the chances of breaking the defense lines of Russia and capturing Russian soil will fade soon.
The Commander of Russia's Combat Group Center, Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev, said on Sunday that the role of the Ukrainian army could continue the counterattack just until the end of August and that they will have achieved nothing by the winter.
The American senior officials strongly yearn for the defeat of Russia in the Ukrainian war and are optimistic about the counterattack. The US Secretary of State Antoni Blinken claimed on Sunday that Ukraine is advancing with its counterattack, yet the US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl had earlier acknowledged that the counterattack against Russia is going on slower than expected.
US seeks Russia's defeat in the Ukrainian war
The US seeks Russia's defeat in the Ukrainian war at any cost, and the people of Ukraine must pay the price for the American ambition.
From the Biden Administration's perspective, Russia's victory in the Ukrainian war while NATO deploying its forces in the vicinity means the discredit of the military organization and Russia's further regional and international influence and power, which will lead the political and military equations in Europe to the detriment of the West.
Still, President Biden and other senior US officials believe that the Ukrainian war is a unique opportunity to undermine Russia and subsequently prevent the formation of a multipolar system in the world, thus sparing no effort to stop Russia's victory in the war.
Nonetheless, the catastrophic consequences of the war and the continuation of the current situation have caused Western experts to warn about the war.
The Head of the former US Secretary of State Colin Powel's Office, Colonel Laurence Wilkerson, warned that if the Ukrainian war is not stopped as soon as possible, NATO will collapse next year.
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