Belarusian General Alexander Grigoryevich Wolfovich and current secretary of the State Security Council said that some “sabotage and intelligence groups Ukrainians“entered the territory of Belarus. It was reported by the state media in Minsk, which highlighted that at least 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers would be stationed at the border and distributed to the Rivne, Kyiv and Chernihiv oblasts. In recent weeks, Minsk had announced , in addition to the purchase of the Russian missile systems “S-400” and “Iskander”, also to strengthen some border security units.
“They Fix the Mines”
But what exactly happens? Volfovich allegedly told the First Belarusian TV channel that some “technical equipment is positioned along sections of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border” and ” reduced“After that, as mentioned, these saboteurs operate along the border and occasionally enter Minsk territory. According to the general, Ukraine would then have deployed about 10,500 soldiers in the direction of Rivne, 4,500 soldiers in the direction of Chernihiv and more than 5,500 soldiers on the way to Kyiv, the Russian news agency TASS has just published.
The Minsk Exercises
What Zelenskyy’s move means, if confirmed, we’ll find out in the next few hours: It’s likely that Ukraine also wants to protect itself from the Belarusian borders, where in recent days Minsk’s armed forces have been conducting blitz drills, too when it was immediately established that the neighboring countries and everyone else had nothing to fear because they would not pose a threat. Behind these statements of apparent calm, however, experts read something different from what we wrote in Giornale.it: It would be a negative step in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, because Moscow would be willing to urge Zelenskyy’s army to disperse its forces as well to focus on other areas and not on the Donbass, which would thus remain “easier prey” for the Russians.
Complicity of Belarus
Even if the relationship between Lukashenko and Putin is at an all-time low, the two countries remain allies against the western enemy. That’s for sure, the Ukrainians know, otherwise they would not have had the opportunity to fear the borders with minks. About the, macron has just “strongly condemned Russia’s military aggression, with the culpable complicity of Belarus”, the consequences of which “are devastating in terms of health, in terms of the population, the structures and the health workers deployed, I ask all WHO members to support the one put forward by Ukraine Resolution,” said the President of the French Republic, speaking at the 75th WHO plenary session. It is important to highlight the quote from Belarus which, while not a major player, is certainly always very close to Putin’s army.