Suicide plan
At the beginning of October, the same Viktor Khrenin talked about Russia and Belarus deploying a joint group of troops prepared for “the task of armed defence of the Union State [an alliance between Russia and Belarus — translator’s note]”.
According to the minister, back then, the troops had already been performing combat duty tasks in an enhanced mode. After the Russian army had withdrawn from Kherson, the freed-up Russian forces were deployed to the Belarusian military bases.
Since the summer, there have been rumours among the troops about the command planning to amass enough forces to be able to capture the cities of Lutsk and Lviv in a decisive attack, then move along the Ukrainian border, cutting off the Western arms supply routes.
The second big attack would be on Kyiv. In Russian commanders’ fantasies, the success of the operation would make Volodymyr Zelensky surrender and end the war.
A Russian soldier currently serving in the Belarusian city of Hrodna confirms the information about Russia amassing troops in Belarus: