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Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday he will form a “joint regional organization of troops” with Russia to prevent “possible aggression against our country” through Ukraine and NATO.
“Possibly it wouldn’t be just 1,000 infantrymen,” Lukashenko said. His comments, reported via the state-run Belta news agency, “fuel the hypothesis that Belarus would possibly send troops to Ukraine to assist the Russian army’s campaign,” writes Andrew Higgins of The New York Times. Lukashenko has yet to send Belarusian troops to Ukraine, which has a border with Belarus, and on Monday told his army leaders to be “ready to receive” newly recruited Russian infantrymen who have been called up to Ukraine on call.
Lukashenko also claimed, without mentioning any evidence, that Ukraine is planning attacks on Belarus. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, leader of the Belarusian opposition, said Ukraine “does not pose a risk to Belarus. “orders from thieves, they refuse to participate in Putin’s war against our neighbors. “
Lukashenko met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg over the weekend and, at the time, Belarusian state media reported that he “emphasized the need to take measures on the occasion of the deployment of nuclear weapons in Poland. “Lukashenko relies on Moscow. money, fuel and security aid, and the Times says some analysts believe this was a sign that the floor was ready for an imaginable deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus.
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, tens of thousands of Russian troops were moved to Belarus, and the country’s territory was used to liberate Putin’s initial failed attack on Kiev. Andrei Sannikov, a former deputy foreign minister who fled Belarus after being jailed, told The Moments that Lukashenko is in an unenviable position: Russia, which is losing the ground it captured in Ukraine, pressures him to send his own troops to fight, but he knows that even his supporters would be disappointed if he sent Belarusian troops to Ukraine.
Sannikov said he thought Lukashenko “had no choice” and that “his boots would inevitably be on the ground in Ukraine. “He “makes no decisions about war,” Sannikov added. Putin makes all the decisions and says Lukashenko what to do. “
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