In response to the threat posed by Wagner mercenaries in Belarus, Lithuania's State Border Guard Service (VSAT) plans to deploy more officers on the country’s border with Belarus, LRT reports.
“We plan to increase our contingent in the near future," VSAT chief Rustamas Liubajevas told reporters on Tuesday after a meeting with the president.
He refrained, however, to elaborate on how many additional officers would be deployed at the border.
Asked whether only border guards are currently working at the border with Belarus, Liubajevas said "there are certain actions that are being carried out by other institutions", but he refrained from naming them.
After the failed mutiny in Russia in June, several thousand members of the Wagner mercenary group moved to Belarus. According to the country's leader Alexander Lukashenko, they are training Belarusian soldiers.
