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When seeing Lukashenka in Minsk on 23​ April, the Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu said that a Russian air regiment and an airbase will have been created Belarusian territory by 2015. Shoygu said that the first military planes would come to Belarus already this year. His ( Read more... )

Originally published at Belarus Digest. Please leave any comments there.

More Russian military bases may appear in Belarus soon. According to naviny.by, a Belapan news agency web site an entire aviation division can be deployed. This report, however, referred only to an expert from a dubious Russian “Academy of Geopolitical Problems”.

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