Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of Ukraine said on August 11, 2022, that about 13 thousand Belarusian active and former soldiers agreed to participate in the war against Ukraine on the side of the Russian army.
Source: Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksii Hromov
According to him, the Ukrainian military has information that there are six battalions of the Armed Forces of Belarus along the state border of Ukraine. In addition, Intelligence has data on several thousand volunteers who are ready to stand on the side of Russian troops and fight in Ukraine.
“According to preliminary data, up to 13,000 people from the current and former military units of the Belarusian special operations forces, as well as the riot police, have signed their consent to participate in the war against Ukraine.”
Hromov added that Russia invites foreign representatives from Syria, Mali, Laos, and Uzbekistan, who can also be thrown into battle against Ukraine, to the Belarusian training grounds.
At the same time, according to him, the main motive of the representatives of the occupying troops is material and financial, and there is no ideological component in their actions.
“No one believes in denazification, in protecting the rights of the Russian-speaking population. Fear and money are the main factors of the Russian military presence,” he stressed.
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