Media reported on 26 September 2026 that Vadim Kabanchuk, a representative of the Belarusian opposition, alleged that military infrastructure was being expanded in the Grodno region with Russian support.
According to the report, the work includes modernising an airbase for Belarusian and Russian aircraft. Kabanchuk also said that the combat readiness of a local military unit had been checked.
He assessed that, if Moscow decided to enter a direct conflict with NATO, Belarus could serve as a staging ground for an operation in the area of the Suwalki Corridor, which lies between Poland and Lithuania. This assessment was attributed to Kabanchuk and was not independently verified in the supplied material.
The report linked the alleged infrastructure expansion to the broader military integration of Belarus and Russia. The supplied material said the airbase could accommodate Belarusian and Russian attack and transport aircraft, but it provided no independent evidence confirming the planned use or scale of the facility.
It also alleged that the government of Alexander Lukashenko was directing substantial resources towards militarisation and closer military integration with Russia while Belarus faced economic difficulties, including continuing inflation, reduced purchasing power and rising losses in some industrial sectors. These claims and the stated interpretation of their significance were not independently substantiated in the source.
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