Three Russian military personnel reportedly killed when a drone attacked an airbase near Saratov, 450 miles south-east of Moscow
, which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, andhave been deployed to Belarus and are prepared to perform their intended tasks, a senior Belarusian defence ministry official has said.
Our servicemen, crews have fully completed their training in the joint combat training centres of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus … A Iskander-M missile launcher seen at the Kubinka military training ground in Moscow, Russia on 17 August, 2022.It is not clear how many of the Iskander systems have been deployed to Belarus but it follows Putin’s visit to Minsk on 19 December amid concerns inRussian forces used Belarus as a launch pad for their abortive attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in February, and there has been a growing flurry of Russian and Belarusian military activity in recent months.
On December 26, at around 01:35 Moscow time , a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down at low altitude while approaching the Engels military airfield in the Saratov region.
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