Yeliseyev made the statement in his Telegram channel; Agentstvo reported on the post. He quoted his own words: "It's not for nothing that after the march we discussed a land corridor to Kaliningrad with the boss and would have done it if they had allowed it from above." He did not specify who else took part in the discussions or how far the plan was developed.
The Suwalki Corridor is a roughly 100-km stretch along the Polish-Lithuanian border between Belarus and the Kaliningrad Region. It provides the only land link between the Baltic states and the rest of NATO; seizing it would allow that link to be cut.
After the mutiny, some Wagner mercenaries were redeployed to Belarus. In July, Andrei Kartapolov, then head of the State Duma's defense committee, said "there is such a Suwalki Corridor" that "we very much need if anything happens," and that "a strike fist is ready that will take this unfortunate corridor in a matter of hours."
In late July, then-Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said about 100 Wagner mercenaries had moved toward the Suwalki Corridor from near Grodno. A week later, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski said the Wagner fighters had tried to enter Poland.
Yeliseyev worked for Prigozhin from 2016, Fontanka reported. In the summer he published a book, "The Wagner Empire," in which he claimed, among other things, that he oversaw the recruitment of prisoners from Russian penal colonies to fight in the war. In an interview with Fontanka in June, Yeliseyev said he had been an intermediary between the Wagner private military company, the presidential administration, the FSB and other structures.