Belarus Plans New Outpost on Border with Ukraine

29 October, 2024 Illustrative photo of a Belarusian border guard. Photo from open sources The State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus will build a new outpost on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.

The Belaruski Gayun monitoring group reported on this. On October 29, the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus announced a tender for the purchase of "engineering services for the integrated management of construction activities" for the border outpost in the village of Svicha (Narowlya district, Gomel region). The settlement is located 600 meters from the border with Ukraine, and 36 kilometers from the district center of Narowlya.

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Photo credits: Belaruski Gayun monitoring group

The construction of the border outpost involves building administrative and technical facilities, a dog kennel, a dormitory for military personnel, and engineering and communications networks. It is planned that construction of all the facilities will be completed by the end of 2026. The Belaruski Gayun monitoring group assumes that, given its location, the unit will likely become part of the Mozyr border guard detachment.

The choice of Narowlya district for construction is intentional, as it currently hosts only one border outpost of the Mozyr border guard detachment - Narowlya.

Illustrative photo of a Belarusian border guard. Photo from open sources

The outpost in Svicha will be the ninth in the detachment's structure. The project details that since 2022, a total of 9 border outposts have been built, reconstructed, and planned in the Gomel region alone.

The construction of new outposts on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border is also taking place in the Brest region.

Militarny previously reported that during military training for the Belarusian Territorial Defence Forces in the Vitebsk region, conscripts were trained to fight off a UAV attack.

During the training, a scenario was rehearsed to fight off an attack on a critical infrastructure facility.