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Belarus expects the arrival of about 9,000 Russian troops to strengthen the border with Ukraine

There is tension in Europe over the possibility of Belarus intervening in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. | Font: AFP

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Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported this Sunday that he expects to arrive about 9000 Russian military which will form a joint military group State Union of Russia and Belarus in the face of rising tensions with Western-backed neighboring Ukraine.

“The total number (of Russian military personnel) will be slightly less than 9 thousand people,” Valery Revenko, head of the international military cooperation department of the military association, wrote on Twitter.

The representative of the defense recalled that the day before “the first echelons with Russian soldiers, part of the Belarusian-Russian group, began to arrive.”

“The creation of the site will take several days,” he added.

On the same Sunday, the press service of the Ministry of Defense announced the arrival of the first Russian aircraft to join the group.

“The aviation component of the regional group of troops from Russia began to arrive in the Republic of Belarus,” the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on Telegram.

Military deployment aims to ‘strengthen border security’

Former Deputy Commander of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Viktor Tumarit was stated that the decision to use a joint Russian-Belarusian group was aimed at strengthening the protection Ukrainian borderand emphasized that it was a “solely defensive” project.

Last week Lukashenka announced the agreement on the creation of this group with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“In view of the aggravation of the situation on the western borders of the State Union, we agreed to deploy a regional (military) group” of both countries, he said.

Further, NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, urged Minsk to stop supporting the Russian “special military operation”.

Ukraine accuses Belarus of complicity in the current Russian military campaign by ceding its territory to an invading army to attack a neighboring country.

(As reported by EFE)


Source: RPP

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