 Belarusian militants training in Poland for insurrection. Belarusian exiles in Poland are training for a future armed insurrection in their home nations, the Times has claimed. The militants may also play a key role in the Ukraine conflict, according to the British newspaper. The report focused on a camp near the Polish city of Poznan, operated by BIPOL, the group of former officers from Belarus security services, who fled the country following protests in 2020. Similar combat training sessions have been taking place in the NATO nation for months, with the number of recruits in the hundreds, BIPOL's leadership claim. The Times described the recruits at the boot camp as common Belarusians who want to topple the government of President Alexander Lukashenko in response to a Stalin-esque campaign of torture and detention that has all but silenced dissent in the country. Following the 2020 presidential election, Belarus saw mass protests against Lukashenko's new term, with people claiming that the poll had been rigged to deprive opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya of victory. Tikhanovskaya has since been treated as a representative of the Belarusian people by the US and its allies and is currently based in Lithuania. BIPOL claims to have carried out several combat missions on Belarusian soil, including a drone attack on a Russian A-50 airborne radar at Mashalishi airbase near Minsk. Lukashenko said the attackers involved in the February incident had been recruited by Kiev special services and branded his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky scum for presumably consenting to the operation. The Belarusian government claimed it was closely monitoring BIPOL's activities, including their training camps located in Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. We know particular recruitment posts, know who is involved, we know the training camps, the identities of instructors, who teaches which parts of the course. Belarus security chief Ivan Tertel claimed in April. The group is using terrorist tactics to pave the way for an instruction in Belarus and acts as a tool of foreign states, the senior official said. The same masterminds are the driving force in terms of geopolitical problems that our neighbours have, he added.