Belarus Begins Military Exercises near Polish-Lithuanian Border
Introduction
Belarus has begun military exercises near the Polish-Lithuanian border, and the Belarusian Ministry of Defense announced that the exercises are based on the experience of a special military operation and include the use of drones and the interaction of tank and motorized rifle units with units of the armed forces. branches.
Increased Border Security by Poland and Lithuania
Poland and Lithuania have stepped up border security since the arrival of thousands of Wagner fighters in Belarus, a Russian ally, under an agreement that ended their armed insurgency in late June and spared them and their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. criminal charges.
Military Exercises in the “Grodno” Region
Military exercises are taking place in the “Grodno” region, not far from the sparsely populated Suwalki, which stretches for 96 km along the Polish-Lithuanian border.
Importance of the Area
The area in which the maneuvers take place connects the three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, to the rest of NATO, and separates Belarus from Kaliningrad, a heavily armed Russian military region on the Baltic Sea with no land connection to Russia.
Concerns and Provocations
Military analysts in the West have often viewed the Junkyards as a flashpoint in any confrontation between Russia and NATO, and have expressed concern that Russia is trying to take over the region and isolate the three Baltic states from Poland and NATO member states.
The military exercises began with a message about the arrival of new Wagner fighters in Belarus.
According to the Belarusian activist group Khagun, which monitors troop movements in Belarus, Wagner units arrive daily in small groups.
About 7,000 of the group’s fighters are in a camp near the town of Osipovichi, 230 kilometers north of the border with Ukraine, on Monday, according to the Gray Zone blog linked to Wagner on Telegram.
The leaders of NATO members Lithuania and Poland said they were ready for provocations from Moscow and Minsk.
Updates on the Ukrainian Conflict
On the last battlefield in Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, director of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said on Monday that two people were killed in two rocket attacks fired by Russia at a residential building in the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine.
“So far, the death of two people, a woman and a man, has been confirmed. An ambulance took out four victims, rescuers and doctors continue to work,” Yermak said in Telegram.
Earlier on Monday, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny said that the troops are creating conditions for a gradual advance, as well as seizing the initiative on the battlefield.
In a Telegram statement, he added that the Ukrainian defense forces are showing resilience and thwarting Russian attempts to launch a counterattack and divert the attention of Russian troops from other sectors of the front.
For its part, the Russian army confirmed that within three days it had advanced 3 kilometers towards Kobyansk in northeastern Ukraine, an area liberated by Ukrainian forces last September and which has been under Russian attack for weeks.
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