Media: After The Mutiny, Prigozhin Discussed Seizing The Suwalki Corridor

• 21.10.2026, 18:32

The invasion may have originated in Belarus.

In 2023, following the Wagner PMC mutiny Yevgeny Prigozhin participated in discussions regarding a potential operation to establish a land corridor to the Kaliningrad Oblast. This was reported by Prigozhin’s former lawyer Igor Eliseev, as noted by “Agency” noted.

Eliseev spoke about his conversations with Prigozhin regarding a “land corridor to Kaliningrad” on his Telegram channel on Tuesday, commenting on a speech by former Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalėnė at the Warsaw Security Forum. Pro-government Russian media widely circulated Šakalėnė’s quote that Kaliningrad “has never been Russian.” Eliseev saw this as evidence that “Russia will never be left in peace.”

“It’s no coincidence that my boss and I discussed the land corridor to Kaliningrad after the march and would have done it if the higher-ups had allowed it,” — he added.

After the Wagner PMC mutiny in June 2023, some of the mercenaries were redeployed to Belarus.

️General Kartapolov, who at the time headed the State Duma’s Defense Committee, said that “there is such a thing as the Suwalki Corridor,” which “we would very much need if the worst came to the worst.” “The strike force is ready to take this wretched corridor in a matter of hours,” Kartapolov declared.

️In late July, Poland’s then-Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated that about 100 Wagner mercenaries had moved toward the Suwałki Corridor from near Grodno in Belarus. A week later, Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński reported that mercenaries from the private military company had attempted to infiltrate Poland.

Eliseev had been working for Yevgeny Prigozhin since 2016, according to “Fontanka.” This past summer, the lawyer published a book titled “The Wagner Empire,” in which he described his work with the PMC’s founder. Among other things, Eliseev claimed in the book that he oversaw the recruitment of inmates from Russian penal colonies to serve on the front lines.