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'They Drink A Lot, Sell Their Fuel': Belarusians Give Low Marks To Russian Troops Deployed For Drills
I've seen with my own eyes the movement of tracked military vehicles on the streets of the city," said a resident of the Belarusian town of Khoyniki, in the southeastern corner of the country not far from the Ukrainian border, when asked about the Russian forces in his country for joint military exercises.
[link:https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-troops-belarus-exercises-ukraine/31711282.html|
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... into Ukraine without being bogged down right now.
liberalla
(9,165 posts)Beausoleil
(2,827 posts)peggysue2
(10,811 posts)Belarus citizens complaining about Russian troops drinking, carousing and ruining roads with their heavy equipment while Russian troops complain among themselves of bad food, boredom and rotten weather.
Doesn't appear to be a rah-rah moment here or any enthusiasm for what's ahead.
Grim all around. Likely to get worse.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Remember what happened with it?