{"id":271379,"date":"2023-07-23T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271379"},"modified":"2023-07-25T06:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:19:05","slug":"powder-keg-europe-poland-moves-troops-to-belarus-border-russias-putin-vows-to-protect-belarusian-allies-says-polish-want-to-annex-ukrainian-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271379","title":{"rendered":"Powder Keg Europe: Poland Moves Troops to Belarus Border \u2013 Russia\u2019s Putin Vows To Protect Belarusian Allies, Says Polish Want to Annex Ukrainian Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Serran \u2013 The Gateway Pundit July 21, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

With every passing day, the disturbing possibility of a widening of the Ukraine war with the participation of other nations in direct military hostilities is becoming more and more palpable.<\/p>\n

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director, Sergei Naryshkin, repeated today his warning that Poland is considering deploying troops on western Ukraine to establish control there.<\/p>\n

The SVR head believes that Warsaw is finally coming to realize that the defeat of Ukraine is just a matter of time.<\/p>\n

Sputnik<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Polish leadership is intensifying the mindset to introduce control in the western territories of Ukraine, the western regions by deploying their troops there,\u201d Naryshkin said at a meeting held by President Vladimir Putin with the permanent members of the Security Council.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

President Vladimir Putin instructed Naryshkin to monitor Poland\u2019s plans for Ukraine, and said that Poland plans to form \u2018a coalition under the guise of NATO\u2019 to intervene in the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The final objective, Putin believes, is to seize land and get back what they believe to be their historical territories.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018As for the Polish leaders, they probably expect to form a coalition within NATO\u2026 and directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine in order to then \u2018tear off\u2019 a fatter piece [of land] for themselves, to regain, as they believe, their historical territories \u2013 today\u2019s Western Ukraine\u2019, Vladimir Putin said.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Reports in the media talk about a union between Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine, Putin added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been media reports about plans to create a certain so-called Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian union: that is, we are not talking about some gathering of mercenaries, there are enough of them, and they are being destroyed, namely a regular, assembled, equipped military unit that is planned to be used for actions on the territory of Ukraine, including for allegedly ensuring the security of the current Western Ukraine. And in fact, if you call things by their proper names \u2014 for the subsequent occupation of these territories,\u201d Putin said at a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council.<\/em><\/p>\n

But the Polish territorial ambitions in Ukraine are not just a province of Russian propaganda, as many would have you think. Ex- Ukrainian president Yanukovych has also addressed this topic.<\/p>\n

\u201cFormer President Viktor Yanukovych also said<\/a> that\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s statehood\u00a0is under threat and it may be forced to merge with Poland.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018No matter how painful it is for me to write about this today, but the statehood of Ukraine is in extreme danger. It is threatened with complete destruction. At the same time, we are talking not only about the risk of losing vast territories in the south and east of the country\u2019, Yanukovych said in May 2022, adding that Ukraine \u2018may be forced\u2019 to de-facto merge with Poland.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So this is the real background to which to analyze the decision by Poland to move its troops to the Belarusian border.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

\u201cPoland\u2019s security committee decided in a meeting on Wednesday to move military units to the country\u2019s east due to the\u00a0Wagner Group\u2019s\u00a0presence in Belarus, state-run news agency PAP quoted its secretary as saying on Friday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Belarusian defense ministry announced that Wagner mercenaries had started to train Belarusian special forces at a military range located just a few miles from the border with Poland.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Training or joint exercises of the Belarusian army and the Wagner Group is undoubtedly a provocation\u2019, [<\/em>secretary of the Committee of the Council of Ministers] Zbigniew Hoffmann told [Polish News Agency] PAP.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018The Committee analyzed possible threats, such as the dislocation of Wagner Group units. Therefore, the Minister of National Defense, chairman of the Committee, Mariusz Blaszczak, decided to move our military formations from the west to the east of Poland\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In Moscow, Putin had tough words in response, stating that Poland was also seeking to annex territories in Belarus.<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

\u201cVladimir Putin has said Russia will use \u2018all means at its disposal\u2019 to defend\u00a0Belarus\u00a0after Poland and other EU countries voiced concerns about the deployment of Russian paramilitaries near their borders.<\/em><\/p>\n

[\u2026] \u2018Unleashing aggression against Belarus would mean aggression against the Russian Federation\u2019, Putin said, according to the Kremlin. \u2018And we will respond to it using all means at our disposal\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

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Also see: <\/em>OFFICIAL PUBLIC WARNING FROM RUSSIA — REPORT: Poland Intends to “Tear-Off” Parts of Ukraine and Belarus Under NATO Umbrella<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the real possibility of defeat looming for Kiev, President Putin has warned that Poland is deploying troops ready to annex western Ukraine, which was traditionally part of Poland; with the ultimate aim of establishing a union between Poland, Lithuania and (western) Ukraine under NATO\u2019s protection. However, Putin adds any attack on Belarus will be viewed as an attack on Russia <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":271380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271381,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271379\/revisions\/271381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}