According to The Jerusalem Post, Belarus has been subjected to an organized sabotage campaign that aimed at rail lines transporting Russian troops and supplies into Ukraine.
According to TASS, the General Prosecutor for Belarus has opened a criminal investigation into an act of terrorism committed by an organized group against the infrastructure of Belarusian Railway.
The general prosecutor added that signaling facilities and other transport equipment were rendered “unusable.”
BYPOL, a group of ex-security officers supporting the opposition in Belarus said Tuesday that several sabotage attacks had taken place against the Belarusian railway system, interfering with the movement of military train in Belarus.
“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.”
Here is a map showing the Belarus railnet to give an overview of the issues being addressed. The border between Ukraine and Belarus is still under the control of the Ukrainian Army. Therefore, Belarus’ main rail lines are those that enter Belarus via Russia. They terminate in Gomel. These lines are used to resupply troops fighting in Kiev.
Paramilitary patrols have been started by the Belarus railway system to protect the lines from damage. This is from an Ukrainian website that quotes a Belarus site via Telegram.
The current government of Belarus will send special forces to protect the railways in the south part of the country – Polissya.
The Belarusian Railways Association reports that as of today, March 19, special forces of the Internal Troops of Belarus will assist in controlling the railway tracks and infrastructure of the Belarusian Railway in the south of Belarus (Gomel and Brest regions) near the border with Ukraine.
Pro-Ukraine Belarus sites reports that many people were charged and arrested with damaging railway lines.
According to the Viasna human rights center, eight people were detained in Belarus after the start of the war in Ukraine on charges of sabotage on the Belarusian railroads. Railway workers said that due to the sabotage (i.e., “rail war”), trains carrying Russian military equipment and ammunition stopped moving across Belarus. These detainees could be sentenced to up to fifteen years imprisonment.
One year ago, Belarus was rocked by massive protests against Alexander Lukashenko’s repressive regime.
Even though the protests were undoubtedly part of another “Orange Revolution” organized by George Soros and the WEF so as to further the cause of globalism and sexual perversion, probably with the help of Hunter Biden and Victoria Nuland, the Lukashenko regime was finally able to suppress the street demonstrations. A portion of the protest movement from that time is being revived as protest against Belarus’ involvement in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
One also can’t rule out activities by Ukrainian special forces which, unlike those employed by Russia and Belarus, have had actual training in doing something other than breaking heads of civilian protesters.
The Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces in Ukraine are currently under increasing pressure on Russian troops. An active insurgency that targets the railway trunk to resupply the Russian troops at the Ukraine’s northern theater will develop in Belarus. They won’t be able sustain their own forces if it does. It is unclear how Lukaschenko will try to stop the insurgency that is taking root in Belarus if it succeeds. 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.
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