Belarus is now industrially integrated into Russia's war on Ukraine in ways that go well beyond hosting troops or nuclear weapons, ABC News reports. Over 500 Belarusian industrial enterprises now manufacture weapons and ammunition, repair military equipment, and provide logistics for Moscow's forces, according to BELPOL.
It is an opposition organization of former Belarusian military and law enforcement officers.
Earlier, Ukraine's Presidential Commissioner for Sanctions Policy, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, said fragments of the Russian Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile that hit Bila Tserkva on 24 May contained five Belarusian-made components.
“Lukashenka’s regime is quite seriously involved in the war. Lukashenka is helping Russia in every way he can," BELPOL head Uladzimir Zhyhar said.
Belarus has not contributed combat troops, but integration has affected ammunition, equipment repair, training infrastructure, hospital care for wounded Russian soldiers, missile component manufacture, and the basing of Russian nuclear-capable systems.
Five Belarusian components in Oreshnik that hit Bila Tserkva
Russia's 24 May overnight attack on Ukraine included the third Oreshnik strike since the system's combat debut in Dnipro in November 2024.
The missile hit Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast, carrying six submunitions, with debris giving Ukrainian specialists their clearest look yet at the system's internal architecture.
Vlasiuk said the recovered circuit boards contained Russian and Belarusian components, reportedly produced at the Integral plant in Minsk, according to UNIAN.
He showed the materials to European ambassadors at a 28 May meeting, urging Western allies to tighten controls on Belarusian access to foreign electronics.
500 factories and barracks rising in Gomel
BELPOL's figure of 500-plus Belarusian industrial sites involved in Russian war production runs alongside what Zhigar described as ongoing construction of a large training range and barracks complex in Gomel Oblast — the Belarusian region directly bordering Ukraine.
Ukraine has been forced to maintain significant forces along the Belarusian frontier rather than committing them to the more than 1,000-kilometer line of contact with Russian forces, Zhigar said.
Tactical nuclear weapons and Oreshnik launchers
Belarus, which borders three NATO members — Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland — has hosted the medium-range Oreshnik missile system, capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
The Belarusian regime has also offered its hospitals to treat wounded Russian soldiers and has hosted joint exercises with Moscow's forces.
