The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has deployed his armed forces to the border of Ukraine as a result of Western allies have constructed up “their army presence” within the area.
Viktor Gulevich, who’s the chief of the overall workers of the Belarusian armed forces has claimed that Ukraine has despatched some 20,000 folks near the Belarus border.
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Lukashenko mentioned that they’re to deploy particular forces in three areas close to to the southern border with Ukraine.
He mentioned in an announcement on Telegram, “The group created over the previous six months has greater than doubled each in amount and high quality.
“The looks within the waters of the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas of a bunch carrying sea and air-based cruise missiles, a rise within the aviation group within the nations of Poland and the Baltic states point out a rising menace to the Republic of Belarus.”
The chief of the overall workers mentioned that he has deployed his troops to the area to “in order to make sure the safety of the Republic of Belarus.”
He added, “The grouping created by the armed forces of Ukraine within the southern operational course with a complete variety of as much as 20,000 folks additionally requires a response from us.
“To be able to make sure the safety of the Republic of Belarus within the southern course, the forces of the models of the particular operations forces are deployed in three tactical instructions.”
Minsk has been complaining for a lot of months that NATO are amassing 1000’s of troopers near their borders in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Gulevich mentioned, “The US and its allies proceed to construct up their army presence on the state borders of the Republic of Belarus.
“The established grouping has greater than doubled previously six months in amount and high quality.”
Lukashenko mentioned that Vladimir Putin will ship missiles to Belarus such because the Russian-made S-400 and S-300 surface-to-air missile methods.
“We’re realists, we perceive that we will be unable to defeat NATO. However we will trigger harm, particularly to these territories from which we can be attacked,” he mentioned.
