Western officials and intelligence agencies have been looking for any indication that Russia’s enormous troop buildup along Ukraine’s border is receding. But today brought news that it’s not likely to happen anytime soon.
Western officials and intelligence agencies have been looking for any indication that Russia’s enormous troop buildup along Ukraine’s border is receding.Tens of thousands of Russian troops will remain in Belarus even after massive military exercises between the two countries wrap up on Feb. 20, a top Belarusian official announced Saturday.
That continued deployment without an end date shatters weeks of claims from both Russian and Belarusian leaders that Moscow’s troops and tanks would go home quickly, and adds a new element of tension as new deployments of Russian helicopters and fighter planes continue to flow into the country. Alexander Volfovich, head of Belarus’ Security Council, said a series of unspecified inspections and checks of equipment will continue after the drills end, and then only the nations’ leaders — Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko — can decide when troops are dismissed.
A Ukrainian defense attache attended some of the exercises this week, after an agreement was reached between the two countries.
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