the new Contra in the making : Belarusian Exile Group ByPol training for an insurgency against #Lukashenko's Government in Poznan, Western Poland - đź“° The Times
— According to the British media The Times, Belarusian exiles in Poland are training for a future armed insurrection, insurgency in their home nation, Belarus
In Poznan, Western Poland, ByPol — a group of former officers from Belarus’s security services who defected from the regime during the protests of 2020 — is "actively preparing for the final day", dubbed “Time X”, when they will return to their country to "take on the Lukashenko's Regime"
— “We tried the peaceful route,” said “Grandad”, an electrician in his sixties who recently recovered from a heart attack after the stress of starting a life from scratch in Poland last year. “[But] never has a state won its freedom without blood.”, in interview to #TheTimes
Per the #british newspaper, this session is the first of its kind in #Poznan, but other groups have been training in #Poland for months with recruits numbering in the hundreds, according to Aliaksandr Azarau, the leader of #Bypol
According to him, guerrilla fighters and partisans linked to Bypol have already conducted small successful operations in #Belarus. They sabotaged railways carrying Russian troops to #Ukraine last spring and in February this year Bypol claimed responsibility for blowing up a Russian reconnaissance plane at an airport near #Minsk with two small drones (which as previously reported here, did not happen)
