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Poland's defence minister said on Thursday the country planned to massively increase its forces guarding the border with Belarus, amid concerns about migrants trying to enter the EU without permission and potential threats from Wagner mercenaries.

Poland is sending twice as many troops as expected to reinforce its border after hundreds of Wagner mercenaries flooded into Belarus.

From Bucha to the battle for Bakhmut, we track Wagner’s bloody role in Vladimir Putin’s invasion

Putin’s close ally Lukashenko has vowed not to enter war unless Belarus is attacked by Ukraine

Reports from the front lines of the various conflict zones reveal daily just how difficult Ukraine is finding its summer counter-offensive. Russia has had months to build defensive fortifications and Ukrainian troops are having to fight their way through territory which – according to Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s…

The European Union has imposed sanctions on several Belarus police, justice and prison officials over the crackdown on anti-government activists that started three years ago

The mercenaries have been training Belarusian forces close to the Polish border in recent weeks

Polish and Lithuanian leaders have held an urgent meeting in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad

Fighters from the group are training Belarusian troops near the border with Nato member Poland

Ms Zelenska warned that her country is in desperate need of ‘faster’ support to enable it to fight Vladimir Putin’s troops

Sometime this summer, if President Vladimir Putin can be believed, Russia moved some of its short-range nuclear weapons into Belarus, closer to Ukraine and onto the doorstep of NATO’s members in Central and Eastern Europe