Is Belarus threatening to bail out Russia?

 Epoch Times:

Ukraine Sees Signs of Another Neighbor Planning ‘Direct Invasion’

 There are indications that Ukraine saboteurs are hitting Russian resupply trains in Belarus:

According to the Jerusalem Post, Belarus faces an organized sabotage campaign aimed at railroad lines carrying Russian troops and supplies into Ukraine.

The General Prosecutor of Belarus opened a criminal case into what it called an act of terrorism carried out by an organized group against infrastructure of the Belarusian Railway, according to TASS.

The general prosecutor added that signaling facilities and other transport equipment were rendered “unusable.”

The BYPOL group, which consists of former security officers who support the opposition in Belarus, said on Tuesday that a series of sabotage actions had targeted the railway system in Belarus, disrupting the movement of military trains in the country.

“Belarusians, today our country is drawn into a criminal and bloody war with the fraternal Ukrainian people on the side of the aggressor – the Russian Federation,” wrote BYPOL in a Telegram message. “It is our duty and in our power to do real things to stop it, free ourselves from the occupation of Russian troops and restore the good name of our ancestors. ‘Rail war’ is the knowledge that we inherited, this is what we can do and what each of us can do.”

To give you an idea of what is being discussed, this is a map of the Belarus rail net. As the border between Belarus and Ukraine is still in the hands of the Ukrainian Army, the main rail lines of concern are probably those entering Belarus from Russia terminating Gomel. Those lines resupply the troops attacking Kiev.

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Russian forces are already under pressure by the rear area campaign being waged by Ukrainian Territorial Defense forces inside Ukraine. If an active insurgency takes root in Belarus aimed at the rail trunk resupplying the Russian troops in the northern theater of the Ukraine front, they will find it hard to sustain themselves. The real question is if the sabotage campaign takes off, and it looks as though it is primarily the work of Belarus citizens rather than Ukrainian commandos, how hard will Lukashenko try to suppress it? His flirtation with invading Ukraine (see Belarus Prepares to Join Russia’s Unprovoked Assault on Ukraine and Oops: Belarus Leader May Have Accidentally Revealed the Next Country on Putin’s Invasion List) created enough domestic problems that he was forced to abandon his dream of becoming a Slavic Mussolini. A real crackdown in the service of an unpopular cause by an unpopular ruler could result in Putin seeing his vision of a “sphere of influence” transformed into two nations that look to the West for business and defense.

The leader of Belarus is not a popular figure in his own country and could spark a revolution in that country.  From reading this piece it looks like the saboteurs are from Belarus.

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