Belarusian president claims that Wagner fighters want to invade Poland
Vladimir Putin met with Alexander Lukashenko for the first time since the leader of Belarus helped broker a deal to end a mutiny by Wagner fighters.
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00:00 Vladimir Putin has met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg, where
00:05 they held talks for the first time since Lukashenko helped broker a deal to end a mutiny by Wagner
00:10 fighters.
00:12 Now many of them are stationed in Belarus near the border with Poland, and Lukashenko
00:16 implausibly stated that they now want to invade.
00:19 "The Wagnerians are starting to bother us.
00:22 They are asking for permission to go to the West.
00:25 I say, why do you need to go to the West?
00:28 We are in peace, we control what is happening.
00:31 We are going on a tour of Warsaw and the Rzhesus."
00:35 Putin and Lukashenko then visited an Orthodox church.
00:39 The Belarusian army is now training with Wagner fighters, and this has led Poland to move
00:44 its tanks and troops up to the border with Belarus.
00:47 Putin has also stationed some Russian nuclear weapons there, and said that any attack on
00:52 the former Soviet Republic would be regarded as an attack on Russia.
00:58 (whooshing)