Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated Tuesday that his nation has been caught up within the Russia-Ukraine warfare however that it’s not an lively navy occasion to the battle.
“As for our participation in a particular navy operation in Ukraine, we’re collaborating. We don’t conceal it. However we aren’t killing anybody. We aren’t sending our navy anyplace. We don’t violate our obligations,” Lukashenko stated throughout a navy assembly, in line with a video recording of the assembly by the state information company Belta. Russia additionally calls its warfare in Ukraine a “particular navy operation.”
He then stated that his nation is “collaborating” within the warfare by stopping its unfold into Belarus and by stopping “a strike on Belarus underneath the guise of a particular navy operation from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.”
“As I stated, nobody will shoot Russians within the again from the territory of Belarus. That’s our participation,” the Belarusian chief stated.
He added that Belarus can be caught up within the battle as some extent of entry for refugees.
“Sure, deal with folks if vital. Sure, we feed folks. And never solely Russians. We feed most of all these refugees, beggars, poor individuals who come to us from Ukraine,” Lukashenko stated. “… How to not feed them, how to not deal with them? That is our participation on this navy operation. There is no such thing as a different approach and there gained’t be.”
He careworn that Belarus is just not planning to announce any mobilization however that it intends to be taught from Russia’s expertise.
Lukashenko has been an in depth ally of Russian chief Vladimir Putin, and Belarus was used as a launch level for Russian troops in February.
The Belarusian chief has beforehand stated his nation was “being dragged” into the warfare.
