They demand the aforementionesd, but at the same time, increase military budgets, dragging large military formations to our borders.

The answer is simple: there should not be a single foreign military in Poland, Lithuania or the other Baltic states, Lukashenko added, quoted by Belta news agency.

Then we can also make claims about the presence there of military from other countries.

In the meantime, these are unreasonable and stupid demands, not even requests and proposals, but demands,’ the head of state stated.

Lukashenko noted that the leaders of Poland and the Baltic countries deliberately foment hysteria about the presence of members of the Wagner group in Belarus.

On August 28, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski demanded from Minsk at a press conference after a meeting with partners from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia that ‘the Wagner Group immediately leave the territory of Belarus’.

He also stated that Poland and the Baltic countries would close the border with Belarus and all border crossings in case of serious incidents.

Belarusian State Secretary of the Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich called the statements false, according to which his country has become a threat to neighboring states by hosting a detachment of the Wagner Group on its territory.

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