7/7/22
Thứ sáu, 08/07/2022
Một quan chức Ukraine nói rằng, Belarus đã cho phép Nga toàn quyền sử dụng một sân bay ở biên giới với Ukraine, giữa lúc Belarus hỗ trợ Moscow xâm lược Ukraine.
Máy bay quân sự Nga và Belarus trong một cuộc diễn tập chung ở vùng Grodno của Belarus hồi tháng 2/2022 (Ảnh: AFP).
Hãng tin Newsweek ngày 7/7 dẫn lời ông Oleksiy Gromov, Cục trưởng Cục Tác chiến thuộc Bộ Tổng tham mưu quân đội Ukraine, cho hay Belarus đã cho Nga mượn sân bay ở vùng Gomel, khu vực giáp biên giới với Ukraine. Ông Gromov cho biết thêm, ở khu vực này đang diễn ra các hoạt động trang bị biến nó thành một căn cứ quân sự của Nga.
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Belarus Gives Russia Control of Airfield Less Than 20 Miles From Ukraine
BY NICK MORDOWANEC ON 7/7/22 AT 7:04 PM EDT
Atop Ukrainian official has stated that Belarus has given "full control" of the Zyabrovka airfield near the Ukraine-Belarus border to Russia, materializing previous fears that a growing number of Belarusian assets are intensifying war-time pressures.
Oleksiy Gromov, deputy chief of the Main Operative Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said during a Thursday briefing that the airfield is located in the Gomel region. The BBC reported in February that the airbase is 19 miles from the Ukraine border.
Gromov said there are currently "activities to equip [a] Russian military base" at the location, reported Eastern European media outlet NEXTA.
Within the last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said a combination of "unprecedented sanctions" and "political pressure from the collective West" has pushed Russia and Belarus toward unification.
A top Ukrainian official has stated that Belarus has given "full control" of the Zyabrovka airfield near the Ukraine-Belarus border to Russia. Above, fighter jets fly in formation during joint exercises of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus as part of a military exercise at the Gozhsky firing range in Belarus' Grodno region on February 12.
LEONID SHCHEGLOV / BELTA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES
On June 21, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesperson Oleksandr Motuzianyk said there were up to seven Belarusian battalions on the border between Belarus and Ukraine, in the Brest and Gomel regions, according to news agency Interfax-Ukraine.
"This is up to 4,000 personnel. But you must understand that there are also Russian troops there," Motuzianyk said at the time, according to an English translation. "Considering that today the Belarusian side provides Russia with all the logistics, it is quite possible that the Russians will be able to quickly transfer some additional reserves to the territory of Belarus and, possibly, prepare an offensive, but they need to prepare for this. As of this day, we do not see it yet."
Within the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Russian forces have "liberated" all of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region following the capture of Lysychansk, the last major Ukrainian-held city in Luhansk.
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reportedly told Putin that Russia's troops and members of a local separatist militia "have established full control over Lysychansk and some nearby settlements," according to a Telegram post, and that the total area liberated within that time frame was 182 square kilometers.
The Kremlin's war goals may be coming to fruition as the entire eastern Donbas region, comprising the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, is feeling the pinch.
On Tuesday, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko called for 350,000 civilians to evacuate to safety, followed by a missile attack Thursday by Russian artillery that killed at least one individual and wounded six others.
Another city, Sloviansk in the Donbas region, is now in Russia's crosshairs.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-control ... ne-1722757
