EU Neighbors May Shut Belarus Border, Lithuanian President Says
- Nauseda reinforces border security warnings over Wagner
- Mercenaries decamped to Belarus have stoked tensions
Gitanas Nauseda
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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said Baltic nations and Poland should be prepared to shut the border with Belarus as he reinforced security warnings over the presence of Russian mercenaries in the country.
Speaking after a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the northeast Polish city of Suwalki, Nauseda addressed the rising tensions after Wagner group soldiers decamped to Belarus in the weeks after an aborted rebellion against the Kremlin.