Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin agreed to deploy a joint regional group of troops. In this regard, Lukashenka instructed to receive and deploy the Russian military on the territory of Belarus. In Belarus, the creation of this group was announced on October 6, before the explosion on the Crimean bridge. Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin explained that it is needed "in case the situation in the western direction worsens."
It was reported that the joint grouping would include the Belarusian army, the Russian tank army and some units of the Airborne Forces and the Aerospace Forces.
Military expert Sergei Grabsky, in a conversation with The Insider, explained that “it is strategically beneficial for Russia to deploy forces on the Belarusian border, without even assuming a direct invasion, because Ukraine will keep a certain amount of forces in this direction.” This stretches the Ukrainian grouping and requires additional involvement of forces and means in order to monitor the border zone of a thousand kilometers.
“Statements about the creation of this group do not cause any surprise, given who we are dealing with. The fact that Lukashenka and Putin planned to create it is evidenced by many exercises. Previously, they developed a command structure in advance,” he said.
According to him, in order to deploy this grouping immediately, "certain steps must be taken and a certain number of troops must be concentrated, but we do not see such a concentration." “Now we see six battalion tactical groups and a special forces detachment of Belarus on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in constant readiness,” the expert said.
On the morning of October 10, 75 missiles were fired at Ukraine, 41 of them were shot down. This was announced by the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny. The attack continues, by 10 am Kyiv time, Krivoy Rog is under fire.
They shelled Kyiv (including its center), Lvov, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Khmelnitsk, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv, Sumy, Rovno, Ternopil, Poltava, Kirovohrad region. In Lviv, a thermal power plant was damaged, the city is de-energized, there is no hot water, backup power generators are running.
The Minister of Culture of Kyiv Oleksandr Tkachenko said that the building of the Philharmonic Society, the museum of Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko, and the Shevchenko museum were damaged as a result of the shelling of the city. Rockets hit the Kyiv National University. Taras Shevchenko and in the park of the same name opposite.