The Russian Federation increases the military group in Belarus: they take APC from Russian plants (photo)
The head of the Border Guard Service of Ukraine Sergey Deyneko reported about it, the Belarusian Service of Radio Svoboda reports. In the coming weeks, some of the Russian servicemen will be transferred back to the territory of the Russian Federation and then into the war zone in the Donbass. In Belarus, part of the servicemen from the 3rd Army Corps of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division will be replaced.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, personnel, military and other equipment for increasing the united regional grouping of troops continue to receive from the Russian Federation. The new units are planned to carry out combat training. In particular, joint flight-tactical exercises of aviation of Belarus and the Russian Federation.
"The joint training of the Belarusian and Russian components of the regional group of troops is complex and covers not only the combat component, but also all security systems," the press service of the department said. About 10. 5 thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are trained on the territory of Belarus.
On Thursday, January 5, the Deputy Commander of the Belarusian Airborne Assault Brigade Oleksandr Botyanovsky stated that the BTR-82A from the Russian plant "Arzamas" arrived in Belarus. "It has arrived for the re-equipment of the BTR-80 samples we have. Therefore, the technique is deeply upgraded compared to the BTR-80 sample. This sample has already been studied for the brigade. Adding that new equipment exceeds the previous analogue.
In the coming days BTR-82A, BTR-80K will come to the military units of special operations of the Armed Forces of the RB. Last October, Lukashenko stated that a regional group of troops would be located near the border with Ukraine. The politician explained this decision to "threats" from Ukraine and the West, however, no evidence.
The transfer of equipment and personnel of Russian troops on the railway to Belarus, which is ongoing, indicates that the Russian Federation prepares Belarus for the task of new strikes in the territory of Ukraine. For several past months, the movement of military equipment has continued. We will remind that, according to the monitoring group "Belaruski Gayun", Russian echelons with tanks T-80, gas trucks, trucks were Ural and KAMAZ.