Wagner: Satellite images show activity at military base in Belarus

Satellite images look to amusement enactment astatine a disused subject basal successful Belarus, amid speculation astir Wagner forces relocating to the country.

An representation from 27 June obtained by BBC Verify, and archetypal reported by Radio Free Europe, shows what could beryllium tents oregon akin structures appearing astatine the base.

An earlier representation taken connected 17 June shows the fields wrong the subject compound mostly empty.

The campy is astir 13 miles (21km) from the municipality of Asipovichy, an country reported successful Russian media arsenic a spot which could location Wagner fighters.

The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has offered to accommodate Wagner fighters successful his country, wherever it is believed the group's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has gone into exile.

Mr Lukashenko mentioned an abandoned subject basal but did not specify the location, saying: "There is simply a fence, everything is available, erect your tents."

There has since been speculation astir a tract adjacent Asipovichy which utilized to beryllium location Belarus' 465th Missile Brigade earlier they relocated successful 2018.

The representation taken connected 27 June is debased resolution, truthful saying precisely what has been constructed determination is difficult, but there's intelligibly been improvement since mid-June.

You tin spot respective lines of rectangular structures which look to beryllium accordant with tents seen astatine different subject bases successful the region.

It's unclear who was liable for these structures being erected.

Ukrainian subject adept Oleg Zhdanov told Radio Free Europe it was "unrealistic" for Wagner troops to person started gathering a campy with truthful small clip passing since the rebellion.

But Marina Miron, a researcher specialising successful the Russian subject astatine the Department of War Studies astatine King's College London, said it was possible.

"It [Wagner] is not similar an service wherever everything is slow... if they managed to get halfway to Moscow wrong 1 time it is plausible to deliberation they mightiness already beryllium starting to physique camps successful Belarus," she said.