{"id":128085,"date":"2025-02-28T00:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/128085\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"opposition-skeptical-of-planned-exercises-ahead-of-zapad-2025","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/128085\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition security chief says trains being prepared for Zapad-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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February 28, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Against the backdrop of Russia\u2019s expansionist military policy and its war of aggression against Ukraine, any movement of troops or hardware through Belarus is a threat, said Vadzim Kaban\u010duk, the opposition security chief. There is no reason to trust Minsk when it announces \u201cplanned exercises\u201d or \u201croutine maneuvers,\u201d he added, according to the opposition cabinet\u2019s press office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaban\u010duk cited recent reports from the underground railway workers\u2019 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to available data, the Belarusian and Russian railways have taken measures to increase the capacity of the tracks, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 26, Minsk and Moscow ratified a treaty on security guarantees. \u201cThis 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,\u201d the politician commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall, Russia and Belarus will hold the Zapad-2025 strategic exercise on Belarusian territory. In 2022, Belarus \u201chas already become a platform for invading Ukraine under the guise of exercises,\u201d Kaban\u010duk stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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