The potential establishment of Wagner militia camps in Belarus continues to stir alarm. Poland said it will send 500 extra police officers to its border with the Russian ally. Ukrainian commanders met Saturday to hear a report on the operational situation on the northern border, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private jet reportedly landed in Minsk on Saturday from St. Petersburg, according to the Institute for the Study of War, which cited public flig
(Bloomberg) — The potential establishment of Wagner militia camps in Belarus continues to stir alarm. Poland said it will send 500 extra police officers to its border with the Russian ally. Ukrainian commanders met Saturday to hear a report on the operational situation on the northern border, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private jet reportedly landed in Minsk on Saturday from St. Petersburg, according to the Institute for the Study of War, which cited public flight tracking data. Satellite images show hundreds of large tents set up over the past week at a previously abandoned military base in Belarus about 150 miles north of the Ukrainian border, the Associated Press reported.
As their counteroffensive continues, Ukrainian forces advanced toward Bakhmut, a military spokesman said, as the eastern city — heavily damaged during months of fighting – once again becomes a focus of hostilities. Russia is likely pulling forces from elsewhere toward Bakhmut, ISW said. Ukraine’s air defense said it downed eight Shahed drones and three Kalibr missiles launched by Russia overnight, including the first attempted strike on Kyiv in almost two weeks. Zelenskiy visited Odesa on Sunday to review naval capabilities there, and Ukraine’s navy reported that nine Russian warships are currently in the Black Sea.
The Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine has had a “corrosive” effect on President Vladimir Putin’s regime and Russian society, William Burns, director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, said on Saturday. “Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership,” the top US spy said in a lecture at Britain’s Ditchley Foundation.
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