Anti-Russia guerillas in Belarus take on ‘two-headed enemy’
, 2023-03-18 19:58:15,
After Russia invaded Ukraine, guerillas from Belarus began carrying out acts of sabotage on their country’s railways, including blowing up track equipment to paralyse rails that Russian forces used to get troops and weapons into Ukraine.
Key points:
- A guerilla movement has sprung up on the ground and online to disrupt the Kremlin’s operations in Belarus
- Guerillas have posted Russian military movements online as well as sabotaging railways and aircraft
- Belarus’s President has introduced the death penalty for attempted terrorist attacks
In the most recent sabotage to make international headlines, they attacked a Russian warplane parked just outside the Belarusian capital.
“Belarusians will not allow the Russians to freely use our territory for the war with Ukraine, and we want to force them to leave,” Anton, a retired Belarusian serviceman who joined a group of saboteurs, told The Associated Press.
“The Russians must understand on whose side the Belarusians are actually fighting,” he said, speaking on the condition that his last name be withheld for security reasons.
More than a year after Russia used the territory of its neighbour and ally to invade Ukraine, Belarus continues to host Russian troops, warplanes, missiles and other weapons.
The Belarusian opposition condemns the cooperation, and a guerilla movement sprang up to disrupt the Kremlin’s operations, both…
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