Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko announced his support for a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which in the Russian Federation is called a "

According to him, the states have a single army, and he "

“Our participation in the special operation was determined by me long ago.. On the first day of the beginning of this operation, when I said: we will not allow anyone to shoot a Russian man in the back. And we took up defense from the Brest Fortress to the southern borders in order to prevent this stab in the back of the Russians by NATO troops,"

Repeating the Kremlin’s narrative about Russia’s war not with Ukraine, but with the supposedly collective West, Lukashenka called Belarus the only ally of the aggressor.

“We are the only country that supports the Russians in this fight. (...) Those who reproach us, didn’t you know that we have the closest alliance with the Russian Federation? With the state with which we are building a single, powerful, independent state - the Union State. And that they did not know that we have created a single group of armed forces in the union of Belarus and Russia for a long time. In fact, a single army. You knew all this, so why are you reproaching us today "

Lukashenka also commented on the increase in the number of NATO military contingents in Eastern Europe. According to the dictator, this is necessary not as a reaction to Russian aggression, but for a “war with the Russian Federation”.

“You know about the decisions taken by the NATO bloc to increase the number of armed forces in Eastern Europe tenfold. Why in peacetime? To fight. And we need to survive (…) and win,” Lukashenka says.

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Lukashenka, whose power depends on the support of the Kremlin, has turned Belarus into a Russian training ground. Missiles are launched from the territory of a neighboring state in Ukraine, Russian bombers take off from Belarusian airfields, weapons and fuel are delivered by the Belarusian railway to the RF Armed Forces. Nevertheless, the self-proclaimed president still refuses to openly enter the war..

Ukrainian intelligence officers consider a direct military offensive from Belarus unlikely, but the threat of an invasion of the Belarusian army into the territory of Ukraine, from a military point of view, remains.

Now there are seven battalions of the Belarusian Armed Forces near the borders with Ukraine. According to military experts, their deployment in the border areas should create the illusion of a further invasion and encourage Ukraine to withdraw forces from the Donbass to protect the border with Belarus..