In the Gomel Region of Belarus, near the village of Akimovka, railway infrastructure capable of accommodating military trains is being built.
This is evident from the project documentation obtained by the Belarusian Railway Workers’ Association. It confirms that separate railway infrastructure is being designed for the facility, officially named ‘construction of a training ground in the Gomel Region’.
The client is listed as the ‘Military Design Institute’. The project includes a separate access track, designed to accommodate up to 60 carriages, and a loading bay with a ramp for unloading wheeled and track-bound vehicles.
The exact location of the new training ground is not yet known.
As reported by Radio Free Europe’s Belarusian service, since late 2023, large-scale construction has been underway near Gomel on a new military base, where the 37th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the Belarusian Special Operations Forces is likely to be deployed.
Alexander Lukashenko’s government established this brigade to ‘strengthen the southern sector’ – ostensibly to defend against threats from Ukraine. The eastern part of the new facility is designated on Belarus’s official cadastral maps as a ‘military town’, whilst the western part is designated as a ‘training and tactical range’.
In June 2026, the media reported that construction of some of the facilities at the new military town had been completed. Railway tracks are currently under construction.
The Belarusian leadership supported Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and allowed its military infrastructure and airspace to be used for the Russian army’s invasion and the shelling of peaceful Ukrainian towns, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians.
A number of Belarusian enterprises across various manufacturing sectors are currently involved in supporting Russia’s aggression.
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, military exercises have been held regularly in Belarus, which Alexander Lukashenko justifies by citing threats and the likelihood of an invasion of Belarusian territory from Poland, Lithuania or Ukraine. Although there has been no evidence of such plans.
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