Russia is rebuilding military warehouses near NATO borders

According to information published by the Vazhnye Istorii website, from autumn 2025 to October 2026, T-90M tanks, BTR-82A armored personnel carriers and BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles appeared at the 22nd Central Reserve Base in Buj in the Kostroma Oblast.

The base is located approximately 500 kilometers from the borders of Estonia and Latvia - NATO countries. The analyzes were based on satellite images examined by OSINT analysts Marek Krutow, Jompy and Covert Cabal.

Equipment also in Karelia and Siberia

New deliveries are also to be sent to the 374th Mobilization Development Security Center in Karelia, located approximately 185 kilometers from the border with Finland. Since 2025, "Malwa" artillery systems and "Hiacynt-K" self-propelled howitzers have been spotted there.

In turn, the 349th Central Storage Base in Topczyshe, Altai, was to receive approximately 78 T-72B3 tanks of the 2016 version and over 100 BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles from June this year. At another base, analysts noted the appearance of the BMP-3 and BMD-4 landing vehicles.

Moscow is recreating pre-war wrestling?

This probably concerns equipment sent to storage bases, and not vehicles transferred directly to units ready to be sent to the front.

In the first years of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army was to use a significant part of the resources held in reserve. Current observations may indicate that Moscow is trying to recreate some of these stocks - both by producing new machines and renovating older equipment.

The Oryx project, visually documenting confirmed losses, estimated that by the beginning of 2025, Russia had lost over 20,000 pieces of weapons and military equipment, including approximately 11,600 tanks, transporters and infantry fighting vehicles. At the end of 2024, independent researchers estimated that between 41 and 52 percent remained in Russian databases. pre-war stocks of basic categories of equipment.

In June 2026, Scandinavian and Estonian journalists from DR, NRK, SVT and Delfi reported that Russia was still building and modernizing military facilities near the borders of northern NATO countries. According to their findings, an additional 115,000 could be deployed in these locations. soldiers.

The speech includes: about the entire division in Pechenga, 11 kilometers from the border with Norway; an artillery unit in Kandalaksha on the border with Finland; new garrison of the 44th Army Corps, intended for 15,000 soldiers, in Novaya Wilga near Petrozavodsk; as well as about the concentration of armored equipment in Luga, near the border with Estonia. The Russian Ministry of Defense is also working on increasing the contingent of marines in Baltiysk, in the Koenigsberg region, reports the Vazhnye Istorii website.