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Poland will send 2,000 soldiers to the border with Belarus to support the border guard, Interior Undersecretary Maciej Wasik told the state news agency PAP on Wednesday. It is twice the number of troops requested by the body. Warsaw looks at its border with Belarus with concern since hundreds of mercenaries from the Wagner group arrived in the country last month, invited by President Alexander Lukashenko and after organizing a coup against Putin. In Russia, at least one person has died and 52 have been injured, after an explosion, the causes of which are still to be clarified, at a factory in Sergei Posad, some 70 kilometers from Moscow. In the vicinity of the capital, Russian forces have shot down two drones, supposedly Ukrainian, the Ministry of Defense has reported, which has not specified whether any damage has been done. The US, for its part, has condemned Russian attacks on civilians. In the last of them, perpetrated on Monday night against a residential building in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk province, nine people died, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky certified. The attack, with two missiles fired at the same place in a few minutes, to cause more damage, also caused 80 injuries. Another six civilians died during the day in different incidents.
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