“On the border with Ukraine, in the village of Zyabrovka in the Republic of Belarus, a military camp is being built for the Wagner private military organization. In the future, this military camp is planned to serve in simulating sabotage activities on the border with the Chernihiv region,” the agency’s website said.
CNN has not been able to verify this information.
The Zyabrovka base is located near the Belarusian city of Gomel, about 40 km from the border between Belarus and the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
According to the agency, the military camp has a capacity of 1,000 soldiers.
The National Resistance Research Center of Ukraine said it had obtained the information from “several underground sources.”
The agency asserted that there was a “high possibility” that Belarus and Russia wanted to use the military camp to threaten neighboring European countries. These actions could then cause European countries to “reduce support for Ukraine.”
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko brokered a deal that ended the Wagner uprising in Moscow, and thousands of Wagner troops were subsequently moved to Belarus.
Moscow used Belarusian territories as a springboard to invade Ukraine in February 2022, cementing the partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mr Lukashenko.
Poland recently accused Belarus of violating its airspace, leading to tensions between NATO members and close allies of the Kremlin amid an increasingly unstable regional security situation in Europe.
Warsaw authorities accused two Belarusian helicopters of violating Polish airspace during a military exercise on August 1, an allegation that the Belarusian defense ministry vehemently denied and called “unbelievable.”
Nguyen Quang Minh (according to CNN)
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