The authoritarian Belarusian head of state Alexander Lukashenko has ruled out direct deployment of his army in Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine. “If we get directly involved in this conflict with the armed forces, with soldiers, we will not contribute anything, we will only make it worse,” Lukashenko said in response to questions from Russian journalists in Minsk, according to a report from the Belta agency on Thursday. .
According to him, the Belarusian army, which is 35,000 to 40,000 strong, will not solve the problem of this campaign for Russia. “We don’t interfere, we don’t kill anyone, we don’t send soldiers there because it’s not necessary,” Lukashenko said. Belarus supports Russia, but its role is different.
Russia carries out attacks from Belarus
Lukashenko has made his country, which is heavily dependent on Moscow, available as a deployment area for Russian troops. From there, Russian air strikes on Ukraine are flown. After material losses by the Russian army, Belarus supplies tanks and other weapons.
Ukraine therefore regards the neighboring country as a combatant and is also keeping troops in reserve in case it has to repel a direct attack from Belarus.
Lukashenko accuses Western powers
Lukashenko advocated peace talks between Moscow and Kiev. However, he claimed that Poland and the US prevented Ukraine from negotiating.
Source: Krone
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