"Won't It Turn Out Like The Streetlights?"

• 19.02.2026, 23:08

Belarusians are angry at the sudden levies.

For more than a month the "surprise check of combat readiness" has been going on in Belarus. As part of it, the State Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Wolfovich is traveling to various military units and regions with especially secret plans signed personally by Lukashenko, writes "Salidarnasts".

February 13, the governor came to the training range near Borisov himself, saying that even Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin learned about the inspection only after it began.

Now, all these inspections and firing exercises have been joined by no less sudden training camps - Belarusians are urgently summoned to the military enlistment offices, but the Defense Ministry does not publicly announce how many people and for how long will be sent to military units.

The way people are delivered summonses literally hours before the specified time of appearance has caused a flurry of indignation. Belarusians are also "bombarded" in social networks by the fact that there are no exceptions for fathers of children under 3 years old and children with disabilities, although by law such men are entitled to exemption from the levies.

Referring to the decree of the Minister of Defense and the check of mobilization readiness, the employees of military commissions do not clarify why everything is organized in such a way, but encourage speculation about the consequences of "sudden" training camps.

This will certainly not add to Lukashenko's popularity in the eyes of Belarusians - and no one will believe that the matter was done without the commander-in-chief, but on the personal initiative of the minister. Won't it turn out like with the streetlights, for which the ruler has to justify himself for two weeks already? And that he will also have to explain that he was misunderstood - say, there was no need for fuss and chaos, there is no war in Belarus, everything is stable and calm, the usual standard levies?

Or are those who have noticed the signs of distrust and the highest disfavor for Viktor Khrenin right in their assumptions - it's not for nothing that the ruler has several times blatantly ignored his own Minister of Defense on his own field?

Then the training camps, organized in a shoddy manner and with violations, may become a convenient reason, if not to blow his head off his shoulders, then to send the soldier out of sight. And in his place put someone who clearly understands who is the main center of power and guarantor of sovereignty in the country and in general in all spheres.

P.S. Indeed, it's not for the sake of a beautiful launch of a new military TV channel on February 23rd, is it?