This is evidenced by a new SSU interception: a russian military serviceman, who is ‘touring’ along our border, is telling his friend about it.

‘...we are in the one town [in belarus]. Here, too, they are stirring things up... They go for provocations, for all sorts of sh*t... So, they’re provoking Khokhols [derogatory russian word for Ukrainians] from this side to attack belarus... Well, to get them involved, I guess. 1,500 of us came here,’ he says.

His interlocutor is currently fighting on Donetsk axis and is waiting for his comrade’s unit to be transferred there for reinforcement. But he denies it: ‘...we are moving from place to place again. Every day we move! We’ve already been all over belarus. We were in one city, now we moved to the border with Poland. Near Poland’.

This indicates that russia does not stop trying to involve belarus directly in the war against Ukraine and will use any means necessary.