Fears in Poland's east, as Wagner Group trains across the border


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  • Friday, 21 Jul 2023

Village head Agata Moroz stands in front of her house in Kolpin-Ogrodniki, Poland July 20, 2023. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki

KOLPIN-OGRODNIKI, Poland (Reuters) - People living near Poland's border with Belarus said on Thursday they could hear shooting and helicopters after Russia's Wagner Group arrived to train Belarusian special forces just a few miles from the frontier, compounding their fears the Ukraine war would reach them.

Agata Moroz, the 56-year-old village mayor of Kolpin-Ogrodniki, could not stop her tears as she expressed her anxiety for her family.

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