"They Will Not Pass!": "Night Watch" Set Up At Border With Russia

Paval Seviarynets invited patriots to keep a close watch on Russian tanks in Vorsha.

Co-chairman of the organizing committee for the Belarusian Christian Democracy party Pavel Seviarynets together with his colleagues invited the Belarusians to "Night on Guard" in Vorsha to see if additional Russian tanks are being transferred to Belarus.

The information that Russian tanks which were not intended to participate in the West-2017 exercises, were alerted and started moving to Belarus appeared on the afternoon of September 14.

Late in the evening on September 14 Paval Seviarynets wrote on his Facebook page:

"There is a train with covered trucks at Vorsha Zakhodniaya, which arrived this morning. There are three servicemen-Belarusians in the building of the Central Station. There are police patrols. The situation is quiet. There are no tanks...

Russian tanks have not crossed the Vorsha railway today, we stop surveillance here and are going to the "Crossroads" on M1 ". (This refers to the cafe "Crossroads" at the intersection of the M1 and Petersburg-Odessa routes).

Earlier, Seviarynets explained to Radio Svaboda that he thought it was quite possible that Belarusian Ministry of Defense, which had said that there would be no tanks from the Russian Federation, just didn't not know about the actions of Moscow.

"For now, there is no official information from the Russian military department, that this is not true. If such information appears, we will think that this was a test of the nerves of the Belarusian leadership. Although it looks very bad. What kind of statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense these are, that the Belarusian Ministry does not know about during the joint exercises? Should we pretend that nothing is happening?"

Seviarynets does not yet know what the activists will do if they really meet tanks:

"We will act depending on the situation. But if the Ministry of Defense of Belarus does not know about the tanks, then this is a military aggression with all the consequences."