🇧🇾#BELARUS | 🇷🇺#RUSSIA
Large-scale military exercises started in Russia and Belarus

🇷🇺 Russian military were raised by alarm in the west of country. Combined arms, artillery and reconnaissance units are involved in maneuvers at the training ground in Leningrad Region - more than 3,500 people and about 900 pieces of equipment
▪️For the first time, joint military exercises of Southern Military District and the CSTO began under the command of Deputy Defense Minister General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov ("Echelon-2020")
The exercises are taking place in Rostov and Astrakhan regions, in Crimea, Krasnodar Territory, as well as in the Black Sea. About 6,000 servicemen and 750 units of military equipment are involved in the exercises.
▪️In the Trans-Baikal Territory, combat skills are hone by pilots of 30 fighters. 6,000 military personnel are involved in the Tsugol training ground. Actions during sabotage are being practiced.
▪️Military exercises have started in Chelyabinsk region, in which 8000 tankers of Central Military District and over 1800 units of military equipment are involved. It's noted that military were alerted. Military exercises will last until August 28
▪️Special exercises on fortification equipment of borders, positions and areas were held with engineering units of the Southern Military
District
▪️At a field airfield in the Rostov region, landing of Il-76MD aircraft of military transport aviation and Su-25SM attack aircraft was practiced as part of special exercises with the troops of the Southern Military District, Russian Ministry of Defense reports. Also involved were the crews of army aviation with participation of helicopters MI-26, Mi-8AMTSh and Mi-35M
▪️Tankers of the Eastern Military District fulfilled shooting with standard shells from T-72B tanks at the Burduny range in Buryatia
▪️Also begun the special exercises of the military police of Armed Forces "Guardian-2020", in which 2.500 servicemen and 500 pieces of equipment are participating
▪️Joint training session of the military commandant's office and military traffic police of the Southern Military District took place at Tarskoye training ground in North Ossetia
▪️In the Kuzbass and Orenburg region took place exercises of the 2nd and 41st armies of Central Military District with participation of 12,000 servicemen, 3,000 units of equipment, including tanks, aviation, artillery and troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection

🇧🇾 "NATO troops at our gates": the Belarus Ministry of Defense informed the foreign military attaches about the build-up of military contingents near their borders (which everyone can already see), and announced military exercises in the Grodno region - near the border with Lithuania.
Since August 17, military maneuvers have been conducted at the military training grounds "Gozhsky", "Neman" and "Obuz-Lesnovsky", as well as in the area near Ostrovets
Tank and mechanized battalions of 6th and 11th separate mechanized brigades, missile and artillery units, parts of the 103rd Vitebsk airborne brigade, anti-aircraft missile forces in the 147th, 1146th and 740th anti-aircraft missile regiments with the participation of SAM "Osa-AKM" and SAM "Tor-M2K" take part in this military maneuvers
Air Force and Air Defense units are involved at the Neman training ground (212nd aviation range of the Belarusian Armed Forces)

❗️At the same time, even the Russian press notes that there are no intelligence signs of the strategic and operational deployment of NATO armed forces on the western borders of Belarus.
“Lukashenko wants to draw into his games Russian Armed Forces, ostensibly to defend against a common enemy,” writes Gazeta.ru
"The main for Belarusian leader now is to withdraw as many troops as possible from their permanent deployment points, to reduce to a minimum the communication of military with local population and, mainly, with the protesters, and by all possible measures to prevent the open transfer of units and formations of the Belarusian Armed Forces to the side of opposition."