Russia carries out trainings for future intelligence agents in Belarus

The education takes place at special training camps in military units.

In Belarus the Cossacks and retired officers train children of how to be separatists. In specially created military camps teenagers are carried out to handle weapons and brought up in Sparta way, reports "Patriots of Ukraine” with the reference to sources in the Russian Federation.

During these trainings the children are making active use of St. George Ribbons and symbols of separatists of Donetsk and Luhansk. The process of children’s warlike preparations and trainings take place under the Orthodox and patriotic cover. Polygons are established on the basis of the monasteries. One of these camps is located in Zaslonava village, Lepel district in Belarus, on the basis of a military unit №71325. Military-patriotic Brotherhood of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin and its priest Oleh Plaksitsky supervises children’s trainings. In the photo the children with St. George ribbons do poses with guns against the background of tanks.

The priest has seen nothing extraordinary in the children’s trainings and preparations. “For me personally, St. George Ribbons are symbols of antifascism not “Colorado beetle” related ribbons”, explains the priest. At the same time it is propagated among the children that Ukraine and its army symbolize the fascism and that the Ukrainians were exactly those people who had burned down Khatyn.

“Savior of the Cossacks” is another organization in Belarus. The officers of the 45 separate air-born troops regiment of Russian Federation run this organization. It actively keeps in touch with the other organizations of the same kind located in the post-Soviet territory. About 150 children, 12-16 years old, take their preparations at summer training camp. The patriotic organization itself is under the auspices of Ministry of Defense of Belarus that from time to time lets the teenagers to take training at its military bases. The children are being persuaded of “civil war” in Ukraine and of “confrontation between Ukrainian authorities and the nation”.

In Crimea these training camps for children have practiced since 2004. Some camps of “Crimea Sich” are located next to Eski-Kermen, Bakhchysarai district. The first camp has been established at the suggestion of Russian Cossacks from Taganrog.

“The camp has been established on order to fight Islamists. At the same period we can train 90 people. Schoolchildren from Russia and Belarus take bayonet and gun-shooting trainings”, explains on of the coaches. The entrance to the camp is marked by a large oak cross, which, according to the leaders, the children use to discourage the Islamists.