Another special service train* carrying Russian Armed Forces personnel passed through Smolensk station towards Belarus last night at 02:10 (Moscow time). As in the previous case, the train consisted of 15 open-plan sleeping cars hauled by a TEP70 diesel locomotive.
📍The train crossed the Russia → Belarus state border at the Rudnya – Zaolsha junction.
📍The train’s destination station is Vitebsk (Vitebsk Division of the Belarusian Railway).
📍The travel time from Smolensk station to Vitebsk station is about two and a half hours.
Judging by the number of railcars in the train, the number of personnel transported to Belarus can also be estimated at ≈700–800 people.
The destination station for the train that proceeded to Belarus on the previous day was also Vitebsk.
*Special railway transportation – railway transportation of goods intended to meet particularly important state needs (ed. – including military), as well as railway transportation of convicts and persons held in custody.
