Transport trucks of the National Guard without numbers and identification marks with personnel inside move along the Russian E95 and M1 routes towards the border with Belarus. It is reported by Conflict Intelligence Team .
Initially, a video with unidentified equipment-Ural and KamAZ trucks- published a Paris Burns telegram channel. Then, similar photos were sent by Medusa one of the readers.
Video with these cars was also published by journalist Vasily Maksimov; The reader of Fontanka also reported them. Eyewitnesses claim that inside - people in black form without insignia.
According to CIT , there are coordinates on the video in the tweet of Maximov, which indicate a denouement south of Smolensk (83 kilometers from the border with Belarus). The pictures in Google StreetView confirm the shooting site.
"Mediazona" found two more videos on YouTube . Both are published on August 16. The first was shot on the M-1 highway towards Belarus: the author sees a column of light gray Kamazov and that “warriors are sitting” inside them, although the quality of the shooting does not allow to make out.
The second video, judging by the geomete, was shot in the city of Golitsyno near Moscow.
The press service of the Western Military District told Fontanka that the technique that fell on the video was not in service with him. There were no more official comments on this subject yet.
After the presidential elections in Belarus on August 9, protests do not stop in the country. In the early days, the security forces harshly dispersed the protesters using light -school grenades and rubber bullets. There is data on at least two dead.
Against the background of the crisis, Alexander Lukashenko repeatedly made it clear that he was ready to resort to Russian help. “And we agreed with him [Putin]: at the first our request, comprehensive assistance will be provided to ensure the security of the Republic of Belarus,” said Lukashenko.
In 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia is ready to help partners in, which includes Belarus, in the fight against “color revolutions”.