The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated that its requirements Poland and its countries Baltic for the departure of the Russian mercenary organization Wagner from Belarus are “baseless and stupid”, as the Belarusian news agency BELTA reported today.

According to BELTA, Lukashenko stated that the opposition to her presence Wagner in Belarus is unjustified as long as foreign troops are stationed in Poland and the Baltic countries, which are all members of NATO.

Wagner, whose chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in Russia last week, moved some of its fighters to Belarus under a deal brokered by Lukashenko to end a brief mercenary mutiny against the Russian defender established in June.

Poland and its neighbors see Wagner’s presence as a threat to their security, and Warsaw has responded by moving troops east to the border with Belarus.

According to BELTA, Lukashenko said that Poland and the Baltic countries have no right to complain about Wagner in Belarus as long as they have “even one foreign soldier” on their soil.

“In the meantime, these are baseless and silly demands,” he said.

Belarus said in late July that members of Wagner had begun training its special forces at a military field just a few miles from the border with Poland.

Lukashenko has said his army will benefit from training from Wagner, which has seen some of the heaviest fighting in the Ukraine war and completed the capture of the city of Bakhmut after months of fighting in May.