Ukraine warns that Russia has not withdrawn its planes from Belarus after concluding joint training

MADRID, 2 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has warned this Thursday that the Russian Army has not withdrawn its planes from Belarus after concluding joint training held this week.

"The joint training of the aviation component of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus has been completed. The return of the enemy's aviation group to its airfields has not been detected," the Ukrainian Army said in a statement.

Based on the presence of Russian aviation in Belarus, kyiv has insisted that the threats of air attacks remain high, even more so when in the last day there have been offensives in various points of the Ukrainian geography.

Russia and Belarus began a "joint training session" of their joint regional forces on Tuesday ahead of exercises that both armies will hold in Russia in September, the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced.

Minsk stressed that the training was aimed at "increasing the compatibility between the military command and control agencies of the two states as a phase of the preparations for the Union Shield 2023 joint maneuvers, which will be held in September 2023 on Russian territory. ".

Moscow and Minsk want to improve the coordination of their respective forces, although both parties have rejected that the Belarusian Army is going to be directly involved in the offensive on Ukraine, despite the fact that the territory of Belarus has already served as a base for operations.

Ukraine, in fact, considers Belarus one more party in the conflict and fears that Minsk is looking for some kind of excuse to intervene openly.