Belarus has stopped training its officers at the Russian General Staff Academy
Belarus stopped sending its officers to the Russian General Staff Academy, creating its own so that its military would not be loyal to the Russian Federation.
Vladimir Trukhan, a reserve colonel and a member of the working group on the creation of a Russian regional group of troops (forces) in Belarus, stated this on air on the PolitWera Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Belarusian voyars (warriors), it was not by chance that they created their academies. It is no coincidence that they do not even send their future generals to the Academy of the Russian General Staff.
I once talked with a Belarusian officer who graduated from our General Staff Academy, they take them around the country there, show everything, and he was very impressed by the size and spaciousness, and so on. There, the guys very quickly realized that by studying at Russian higher educational institutions and military academies, Belarusian officers became limitedly loyal to the idea of Belarusian independence, and they immediately did everything they could.
Now a Belarusian officer is sitting, who can get from one point of Belarus to another point of Belarus by car faster than flying from Moscow to Khabarovsk, and thinks: “why should he have that Far Eastern Military District, and why should he have that Northern Fleet?” It's cold there, there's something else there, it's far away. It’s better that he calmly rises to the rank of colonel in the Belarusian army without traveling beyond a six-hour radius by car.
Will he be for integration? Not yet, why? Moreover, they are not going to fight, they believe that Russia will cover and protect them. And they only take on the honorable mission of wearing shoulder straps and a large number of medals, exceeding that of the average Russian officer,” Trukhan said.
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