 Latvian President Edgar Ringkiewicz visited the border with Belarus and Russia on August 8, where he spoke with guards stationed along the fence separating the Baltic country from its eastern neighbors. Ringkiewicz stated that the significant amount of provocations from Russia and Belarus has led his country to enhance its border surveillance, especially in the context of Wagner troops being relocated to Belarus. In 2021 and 2022, NATO and EU countries neighboring Belarus, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania faced a surge of border incursions from migrants. This compelled them to intensify their border protection and patrolling efforts. Although EU countries accused Minsk of exacerbating the migrant crisis, these allegations were denied. Currently, a period of increasing instability is unfolding in NATO countries bordering Belarus, fueled by concerns about the presence of Wagner group mercenaries in Belarus and a surge in attempts by migrants to cross the frontier illegally. Our friends and allies in NATO and the European Union need to understand that the hybrid warfare, the least possible scenario could be the kind of classic military operations. I think hybrid operations are the most likely scenarios that we have to counter. If we talk about military forces like Wagner, if they will try to enter Latvia, it could be the responsibility of our army or for our defence forces. Border guards did quite many steps and so we introduced an additional unit and so we trained additional officers, trained to use weapons, special tactics and so we improved our capacities to deal with dangerous border crossers. I have to say that the situation is quite challenging and the numbers and attempts of illegal border crossings at this year is more than all last year, 2022 commonly. And we also see some unfortunately quite many activities when Belarusian officials try to damage our fence or infrastructure and put illegal immigrants into Latvia.