WARSAW, Jun 27 Group Situation » Wagner» in Belarus requires a tough response from NATO, President of the Republic Andrzej Duda told reporters in The Hague after meeting with a number of heads of NATO countries and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Polish television is broadcasting Duda's speech.
“We have heard… about the Wagner group in Belarus and its head Yevgeny Prigozhin in Belarus. I think this is a serious and troubling problem. We discussed that we have to make a serious decision. This requires a tough response from NATO «, Duda said.
At the same time, Duda hopes that the situation with the Wagner group, whose fighters are supposedly in Belarus, will be the subject of consideration at the NATO summit to be held in Vilnius next month. «Adapting NATO to the current situation in Belarus is one of the main issues that I hope we will discuss during the summit in Vilnius. I think that this also requires our decisions. It is difficult to say whether we will make these decisions during the upcoming summit in Vilnius, because this is a difficult process. But I hope that we will discuss this issue,» Duda said.
On Saturday night in Rostov-on-Don, PMC «Wagner» seized the headquarters of the Southern Military District. This happened against the backdrop of statements by Yevgeny Prigozhin about allegedly inflicted by the Russian Armed Forces missile and bomb attacks on the camps of PMC «Wagner» — this was denied by both the Ministry of Defense and the FSB. A criminal case was opened against Prigozhin for organizing an armed rebellion. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the actions of the rebels a criminal adventure, a stab in the back of Russia and a betrayal, which led to exorbitant ambitions and personal interests.