Several trains with Russian soldiers arrived in Belarus over the weekend. Belarusian ruler Lukashenko had previously announced the establishment of a joint regional force with Russia.
Russia has sent its first soldiers to the neighboring country for a joint force with Belarus. “The first troop trains with Russian soldiers (…) arrived in Belarus,” the Russian agency TASS quoted a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense in Minsk as saying on Sunday. “The transfer will take several days. The total number will be a little less than 9,000 people,” it said.
Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko announced last Monday that he was setting up a joint regional force with Russia. In view of the rising tensions, it should protect the Belarusian border.
Russia has used Belarus as a staging area for the war against Ukraine and is also launching airstrikes on Ukrainian targets from there. Military observers have so far considered it unlikely that Belarus will intervene in the war. This unpopular step could also shake Lukashenko’s position of power in the country. On the other hand, a Russian-Belarusian deployment on the border ties up Ukrainian forces, which are then absent in the east and south of the attacked country.
Source: Stern
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