Minsk has once again announced the holding of military exercises, which have been constantly held under various epithets - "sudden", "unplanned", "unexpected", "extraordinary" since May.
According to the official statement of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, these military training will be of a "complex nature" and the units should " advance to the designated areas as soon as possible, carry out the areas engineering equipment, organize their security and defense, and establish bridge crossings over the Niman and Berezyna rivers as well."
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The Ministry of Defense of the country has already reported that units of the 38th Separate Air Assault Brigade have advanced to the training area. According to the announcement, the training areas were to be located in the west of the country, or in its center:
But, according to the "Беларускі Гаюн" community, the column of the 38th Separate Air Assault Brigade advanced in a completely different direction - to the border with Ukraine. The presence of Belarus’ border guard vehicles in a convoy raises certain questions. In general, given the amount of fixed equipment, we are talking about the equivalent of two companies with attached artillery.
The movement of these forces may be also connected with the rotation of units of the 38th Separate Air Assault Brigade. According to available information regarding the forces on the Belarusian axes, it is the units of this brigade that are currently located in the area of the settlements of Uzhovo and Pinsk.
It should also be noted that the construction of crossings across the Niman and Berezina rivers has become a traditional task, which the armed forces of Belarus works on constantly.
In particular, according to official reports alone, the crossing of the Nieman in the Grodno area has already been reported four times: at the beginning of November, in July, June and May. But the Berezina River was forced only once in July.
It should be noted that fording rivers became the main focus of a number of exercises of Belarusian troops in the summer. The training took place 20 km from the border with Ukraine.
We note that according to the latest information, there are currently 11,700 Russian troops in Belarus, with the announced plan to increase the size of the contingent to 22-25 thousand.
Subsequently, the "Беларускі Гаюн" community reported on the movement of units of the 103rd Separate Airborne Brigade, the route of which also did not coincide with the announced areas of the exercise. The redeployment is carried out by railway, 10 armored personnel carriers and several dozen trucks were spotted on the platforms.
As the spokesman of the State Border Service of Ukraine, Andriy Demchenko, said during a briefing at the "Ukraine-Ukrinform" media center, the creation of groups in Belarus for invasion to Ukraine was not recorded.
"There are no changes in the situation along the border line. The situation remains fully under control. Those units of the Armed Forces of belarus, which were previously on the border with our country, are still there - their number and nature of actions do not change. We do not record the creation of groups that could carry out the invasion," said Demchenko.
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