Journalists tour a military camp the Belarus government may offer to Wagner Group

The Belarusian Defense Ministry showed journalists from CNN, AP, and Russian news agency TASS a camp in the Mogilev region, near the city of Osipovichi, which Belarus authorities have reportedly offered to Wagner Group.

In video footage of the area, CNN correspondent Matthew Chance describes a “vast tent city” about an hour outside of Minsk. He says the base can accommodate around 5,000 people.

CNN says the tents contain only wooden bunks.

Major General Leonid Kasinsky, who showed the journalists around the camp, said it was originally built for training Belarusian soldiers and that Wagner Group currently has no connection to the camp He added that the camp may be offered to the military cartel if its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, decides to relocate the group to Belarus.