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The Belarusian railway community has reported that it has identified the origin of a Russian military train that arrived at the former Krychau-6 airbase in Mahiliou Region between approximately December 20 and 29, 2025.
According to shipping documents, the train was dispatched from the Kapustin Yar station of the Volga Railway, the report says. The station is located near the 4th State Central Interservice Test Range of the Russian Defence Ministry in Astrakhan Region. The facility is used for testing ballistic and surface-to-air missiles, as well as for their combat deployment. Russia has launched ballistic missile strikes against Ukraine from this site, including using the Oreshnik missile system. The sender of the train was the test range itself — military unit No. 15644 — while the recipient was the Military Transportation Directorate of the Belarusian Armed Forces.
According to information from @belzhd_live, the train consisted of 54 flatcars carrying cargo classified as “other goods not listed in the index.” Available information indicates that military equipment was being transported on the platforms. In addition, the train included six covered wagons with equipment, one covered wagon carrying ammunition and passenger cars transporting personnel. The total number of railcars exceeded 61 units.
After arriving at the Krychau I station, the nearest railway facility to the site, the main locomotive was detached, and the train was moved further by shunting operations using a station locomotive. Access to the base is controlled by the dispatching system of Belarusian Railways through a centralized remote-controlled railway switch.
The authors note that the Krychau-6 site had been prepared in advance to receive military cargo under the guise of a “logistics centre.” A railway spur, track infrastructure and loading and unloading facilities were built there, allowing trains to be handled efficiently outside public railway stations.
According to the resource’s data as of mid-May 2026, the contingent delivered by the train had not left the base, and no return shipment of equipment or property had been recorded. No additional military trains had arrived at the site following the December delivery. As a result, the December train remains the only documented rail shipment to Krychau-6 since construction of the facility’s infrastructure was completed, the report states.
Researchers had previously examined Krychau-6 in connection with claims that Russia’s Oreshnik missile system could be deployed in Belarus. At that time, they concluded that the available evidence did not confirm the delivery of the system’s mobile launchers by rail.