Paul Goble: Putin making Belarus into base for attacking Kyiv, Minsk analyst says
A picture taken on Sept. 26, 2013, shows a Russian-built BTR-82A amphibious armoured personnel carrier lands on the seashore during a joint military exercises of Russian and Belarus troops at the Khmelevka firing range in the Russia's enclave of Kaliningrad.
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Even as Moscow appears to be reducing its military actions in southeastern Ukraine, a "reduction" that is at least in part a disinformation campaign, Putin is making Belarus into a base for attacking Kyiv. The appearance of more Russian "little green men" in Gomel last week prompted some Ukrainians to ask whether the Kremlin was planning to stage a Novorossiya-style move into Belarus, notes Natalya Radina, the editor of the independent Belarusian site Charter97.org.
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