Russian Troops Deploy Field Hospital On Belarus-Ukraine Border

Those are not used during military exercises.

New satellite images of the deployment of Russian troops in Belarus have appeared on the web. Several of them are showing the area around the airport in Ziabrauka near Homel, which lies near the Ukrainian border. According to experts, the pictures show a field hospital, which, they emphasize, is not used during military exercises, reports interia.pl.

On Thursday, the Belarusian-Russian military maneuvers "Union Resolute-2022" began in Belarus. The exercise, announced as the final stage of the "testing the Union State's response forces," has caused serious concern in neighboring Ukraine and Western countries.

In late January, Reuters reported that Russian services had increased supplies of blood and medical materials to medical units on the Ukrainian border. As the agency noted at the time, this is another signal that Russian troops are ready to start a conflict with Kiev.

Russian equipment in Belarus

According to unofficial information, at least several dozen trains with Russian equipment and soldiers have recently arrived in Belarus. Armoured vehicles, BMPs, tanks, mortars and other equipment have arrived on the territory of Russia's western ally. Russia also handed Belarus S-400 missile systems, Su-25 attack aircraft, 12 Su-35S fighters, Pantsir-S artillery and missile systems, as well as Uragan rocket launchers and Iskander missiles.

On Thursday, satellite images taken around the airport in Ziabrauka near Homel, which lies near the Ukrainian border, were published on social media.

"My eyesight is not what it used to be, but it's a hospital...," analyst Michael Kofman said on Twitter.

"The invasion will happen only when the Russians start building field hospitals". I have heard this phrase many times," wrote Konrad Muzyka, security expert and director of Rochan Consulting.

Veli-Pekka Kivimäki, a Finnish analyst on artificial intelligence and one of Bellingcat's investigative journalists, wrote that the object in the photo does "look like a field hospital".