Lukashenko said that today his troops “are not going to go anywhere” ..
Self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko again stated that he does not want to fight and that his country “does not need a war.”
He said this during a briefing at the training ground “Obuz-Lesnovsky” in the Brest region on October 21.
“Today we are not going to go anywhere. Today there is no war. We do not need it. We must calm down. Everyone must do their own thing, if we want, so that there is no war. We don't need it , but we must be ready for anything“, the Belarusian dictator answered the journalists' questions.
The threat of Belarus' attack on Ukraine
Minsk is wide from the first days large-scale invasion of Ukraine is helping Russia in the war. In particular, the territory of the republic has become a springboard for launching missiles in Ukraine. In October, Lukashenko and Putin decided to jointly deploy troops. On the night of October 15, a military echelon arrived from the Russian Federation for a joint regional grouping of troops.
On October 20, the head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksiy Gromov said at a briefing that the threat of an attack on Ukraine from Belarus is growing, but we are not talking about an attack on Kyiv. This time, the occupying forces may go to the west of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian army appealed to the Belarusians not to follow Lukashenka's criminal orders. The Armed Forces of Ukraine stressed that in the event of an open entry of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus into the war, they will respond to this step. ,The Ukrainian military assured that Ukraine has never threatened and does not threaten Belarus today.