The first units of the Russian army returned to their garrisons after joint exercises with Belarus. This was announced today in the Ministry of Defense. But the hysteria about the imaginary Russian invasion of Ukraine in the Western media does not stop. The United States even stated that Moscow, on the contrary, is building up forces on the border for an attack.
Russia not only withdraws troops from exercises, but also transfers new forces to the border with Ukraine. Already plus 7 thousand people. And in total there is 150 thousand.
These are the latest headlines on the sites Reuters and CNN, for example. But the Western media failed to outdo themselves. The news is presented all under the same “highly like” angle. This time they refer to anonymous sources on the sidelines of the State Department.
The United States does not believe Russian claims to withdraw troops from the border with Ukraine and suspect that Moscow has increased its presence by as much as 7,000 troops, a senior Biden administration official said Wednesday.
At the same time, as usual, Western journalists do not really want to believe the facts from official sources. And these facts are in the public domain.
Here, trains with military equipment are passing along the Crimean bridge across the Kerch Strait. This is the Southern Military District has completed its part of the exercises. Tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery mounts – everything is relocated to permanent deployment points: in Dagestan and Chechnya.
And these units of the logistics brigade have already arrived at their permanent bases. Behind the forced march of 700 kilometers.
“The commanders of formations and military units, who have worked out the entire range of combat training measures at the training grounds, were tasked with developing schedules for the return of units to their permanent deployment points. The first units that made marches arrive at their military garrisons. Logistic support units of the Western Military District , who worked out tasks at training grounds in the Kursk region, having made a march over a distance of more than 700 km, arrived tonight at the point of permanent deployment in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region,” said Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.
But SkyNews also continues to stir up hysteria around the withdrawal of Russian troops: they showed a satellite image of a pontoon bridge across the Pripyat River.
“The third image showed a new military pontoon bridge being built across the Pripyat River, less than four miles from the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. However, the February 15 satellite image alone does not tell if the bridge was built simply as part of an exercise.” write Sky News.
Moreover, whether he was here before, what is his purpose, who erected him – the editors left the opportunity to answer these questions to their viewers and readers. The main thing is to sow panic. Yes and no time to understand. Analysts of the space technology company throw up more and more pictures of the Belarusian territories.
“Analysts from the space technology company Maxar say that one of the new images showed a newly built field hospital at the Osipovichi training ground. They also noticed training activity at the base,” Sky News added.
According to analysts, another image shows that about 20 attack helicopters of the new unit have arrived at the Zyabrovka airfield. This is despite the fact that the final phase of the Russian-Belarusian exercises “Allied Resolve-2022” will end only on February 20. And only after that the entire Russian military contingent will be withdrawn from the territory of Belarus.
“Military units and subunits practicing tasks as part of the reaction forces of the Union State as part of the ongoing Russian-Belarusian exercise “Allied Resolve-2022″ on the territory of the Republic of Belarus today and on Saturday, February 19, will conduct practical actions with live firing at the training grounds of the Republic. After completion The exercises of the unit and the military units of the Russian Federation will return, as always, to their points of permanent deployment,” Konashenkov said.
Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov today he noted that it is simply impossible to withdraw all the equipment and people from joint exercises in one day.