Walls, Mines and Motivated Men: Ukraine’s Border With Belarus

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are currently bracing themselves for any potential Russian offensive, with Belarusian troops, all along Ukraine’s northwestern border, a heavily forested area full of forbidding wetlands, as well as the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.

Among the many interesting things to see was the wall being built in the north, along the border. In November, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Zelensky’s deputy chief-of-staff at that time, wrote about it. Beefing up positions and laying mines. Last week I managed to get to the Belarus border in the Zhytomyr region. There I reached the positions of the 115 Zhytomyr Defense Brigade, which was created during the first days of the full-scale invasion. The soldiers showed us their camp. They even demonstrated how to mine the territory. As for the possibility of Russia going back on the offensive through this part of the border, they say that they are currently more than capable of dealing with the enemy.