There are 11,000 Russian personnel and greater than 400 items of their navy gear for the time being on the Belarusian coaching grounds.
This was introduced by the Deputy Chief of the Essential Operational Division of the Common Employees, Brigadier Common Oleksiy Hromov, who spoke at a Kyiv briefing, Ukrinform stories.
“The state of affairs alongside the state border of Ukraine with the Republic of Belarus stays managed and steady. The enemy continues to extend its coaching degree, conducting coaching on Belarusian grounds, the place there are at the moment as much as 11,000 personnel and greater than 400 items of weaponry and navy gear of the occupying energy. Right now, the group of Russian troops deployed in Belarus, the Bryansk and Kursk areas of the Russian Federation is half the variety of the grouping that was used for the assault on Kyiv in February of this 12 months — 22,000 in opposition to 45,500,” Hromov stated.
He additionally famous that even within the case of the involvement of all fight Belarusian navy items from among the many floor forces and particular operations forces, the joint grouping will quantity to about 30,000.
Based on Hromov, at the moment Russia has faraway from Belarusian territory all shares of ammunition for artillery techniques and MLRS, which had been created within the pursuits of the armed forces of the Russian Federation on the eve of the invasion on Ukraine.
Hromov added that Minsk has restricted alternatives to provide the offensive grouping of troops with ammunition from its personal territory.
“The prospects for the involvement of the Belarusian forces within the conflict in Ukraine instantly depend upon the flexibility of the Russian forces to advance within the Donetsk course, in addition to on the exercise of the Ukrainian Protection Forces,” Hromov emphasised.
On the identical time, the Russian Federation is increasing its management over the navy airfields of Belarus, and work is underway on organising extra gear on the Machulyshchi, Baranovichi, and Luninets airfields. Particularly, it’s deliberate to show Machulyshchi right into a key hub for the wants of the Russian forces.
As reported by Ukrinform, on December 27, the spokesman for the State Border Guard Service, Andriy Demchenko, said that the border guards don’t at the moment document the creation of an offensive group in Belarus, which might be prepared to hold out an invasion.
