Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko appears to have been broadcasting a planned Russian invasion of Moldova during an address to his Security Council on Tuesday, which was televised and published online by the autocrat.
Mr Lukashenko, a wartime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who calls himself Europe’s “last dictator”, has been confronted by a military command map that appears to show a planned attack by southern Ukraine on Moldova, a former Soviet republic bordering Ukraine. and Romania.
The candid map of the invasion divided Ukraine into four sections, where the lines of attack it had already drawn had already been carried out by Russia, except for what appears to be a planned attack on the breakaway Moldovan state of Transnistria through the Ukrainian port of Odessa. Tadeusz Gichan noted.
An embedded map of the United States and Canada also strangely appeared on the vast map of Eastern Europe, but nothing in the North American section was highlighted.
Lukashenko’s military map has given new credence to reports that Belarus plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to support Russia’s increasingly violent invasion as the country fails to win decisive military victories.
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Russia last week sent ground troops to Ukraine via Belarus, which borders the war-torn country to the north.
Earlier this year, Ukrainian military intelligence warned that Russia was planning operations under a false flag in Moldova as a pretext for military intervention in Transnistrian-controlled Transnistria, Al Jazeera reported.