On Monday, by order of President Oleksandr Lukashenko, an inspection of the combat training of the Belarusian army began, the Ministry of Defense announced in Minsk, reports the EFE agency, citing Agerpres.
The inspection came after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a deal with Lukashenko to station the Russian military’s tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus and ahead of a meeting between the two presidents this week in the Kremlin.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, this inspection is a comprehensive measure that “allows to determine the ability of commanders to lead subordinate military units in conditions of maximum combat readiness, as well as the ability of military units to perform the specified tasks within the established deadlines.”
The General Staff of the Belarusian Army reported that during this inspection, “the movement of military equipment is planned, the movement of civilian transport on public roads and in various territories may be temporarily restricted.”
Belarus, Russia’s main ally in the military campaign against Ukraine, is hosting a group of Russian troops numbering about 9,000 soldiers, 170 tanks, 200 armored vehicles and about 100 artillery pieces.
However, Kyiv believes that it is currently unlikely that Russia will again use Belarus as a staging ground for an offensive, as happened at the beginning of the invasion on February 24, 2022, when Russian troops were brought into Belarus under the pretext of conducting military exercises and attacked the northern part of Ukraine.
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