Poland's Defense Ministry has agreed to send additional troops to the border with Belarus following a request from the border-guard service, state-run news agency PAP reported on August 8. Poland's border-guard service asked the defense ministry to send an additional 1,000 troops to the border, the deputy interior minister said on August 7, amid an increase in attempts to illegally cross the frontier. Poland has built a fence on the border with Belarus, equipped with electronic protection. In recent weeks, Wagner mercenary group fighters have appeared near the border, a development Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said was aimed at destabilizing the situation on NATO's eastern flank. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.
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