Opposition security chief says trains being prepared for Zapad-2025

February 28, Pozirk. Against the backdrop of Russia’s expansionist military policy and its war of aggression against Ukraine, any movement of troops or hardware through Belarus is a threat, said Vadzim Kabančuk, the opposition security chief. There is no reason to trust Minsk when it announces “planned exercises” or “routine maneuvers,” he added, according to the opposition cabinet’s press office.
Kabančuk cited recent reports from the underground railway workers’ community saying that 48 passenger train cars have been brought to the Bahatyrova station outside Minsk for a major deployment. Orders have been placed for freight trains to transfer equipment and ammunition, he added.
According to available data, the Belarusian and Russian railways have taken measures to increase the capacity of the tracks, he said.
On February 26, Minsk and Moscow ratified a treaty on security guarantees. “This document gives Russia the right to create military facilities on Belarusian territory and allows Russia to use Belarus for its military purposes. In the event of a military clash, the parties will consider an attack on one of them as an act of aggression against the Union State,” the politician commented.
In the fall, Russia and Belarus will hold the Zapad-2025 strategic exercise on Belarusian territory. In 2022, Belarus “has already become a platform for invading Ukraine under the guise of exercises,” Kabančuk stressed.

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