The picture appeared with a short caption: "The plan is ready."

Valer Sahashzyk himself, in a conversation with a Svoboda correspondent, noted that he would like to refrain from commenting on this topic for the time being.

"I hope for understanding," he said.

From sources close to Mr. Sakhaschyk, Svaboda learned that this is not the first meeting between Sakhaschyk and Zaluzhny.

Valery Sakhashchyk is received in Ukraine at a very high level.

"Meetings between them took place before.

Publishing a photo is not a declaration of any intentions.

The photo was published at a time when preliminary agreements had already begun to be fulfilled," said a source from Sakhaszyk's circle.

Valer Sahashzyk is a lieutenant colonel.

In the past, he was the commander of the amphibious assault brigade in Brest.

In army circles, he was known as "Black Eagle".

In 2020, he supported the protest in Belarus.

In 2022, he sharply spoke about the participation of Belarusians in the war in Ukraine.

On August 10, 2022, during the "New Belarus" conference in Vilnius, he became the "Minister of Defense" in Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya's office.

"Sakhashchyk and Zaluzhny agreed on a modern approach to conducting military operations.

Their views are very similar," said the source.

At the beginning of December, during a press conference in Warsaw, Valer Sahaszczyk said that a Belarusian military unit will be created in Ukraine, which will include volunteers from our country.

"This is a force that will balance the relationship between the current Belarusian government and the majority of the people who voted for change in the elections.

And I'm sure that a repeat of the 2020 scenario is impossible today," Sakhaschyk said.

At the moment, several hundred Belarusian volunteers are fighting in Ukraine, scattered among the Kalinovsky regiment, the Belarusian volunteer corps, the "Pagonia" regiment, as well as Ukrainian military units.

Since the start of the full-scale war, 18 Belarusian volunteers have died.

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