{"id":259741,"date":"2022-10-11T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T07:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259741"},"modified":"2022-10-12T07:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T07:44:41","slug":"belaruss-lukashenko-warns-ukraine-deploys-troops-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259741","title":{"rendered":"Belarus’s Lukashenko warns Ukraine, deploys troops with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters \u2013 Oct 10, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (right) is a close ally of President Putin.<\/p><\/div>\n

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday he had ordered troops to deploy with Russian forces near Ukraine in response to what he said was a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and its backers in the West.<\/p>\n

The remarks from Lukashenko, who has held power in Belarus since 1994, indicate a potential further escalation of the war in Ukraine, possibly with a combined Russian-Belarus joint force in the north of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“Strikes on the territory of Belarus are not just being discussed in Ukraine today, but are also being planned,” Lukashenko said at a meeting on security, without providing evidence for the assertion. “Their owners are pushing them to start a war against Belarus to drag us there.”<\/p>\n

“We have been preparing for this for decades. If necessary, we will respond,” Lukashenko said, adding that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation while at a meeting in St Petersburg.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko said he had agreed with Putin to deploy a regional military group, and had started pulling forces together two days ago, apparently after an attack on Russia’s road and rail bridge to Crimea early on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko said that a warning was delivered to Belarus through unofficial channels that Ukraine planned “Crimean Bridge 2”, though he did not give details.<\/p>\n

“My answer was simple: ‘Tell the president of Ukraine and the other lunatics: if they touch one metre of our territory then the Crimean Bridge will seem to them like a walk in the park’.”<\/p>\n

Belarus’s army has about 60,000 people. Earlier this year, Belarus deployed 6 battalion-tactical groups, totaling several thousand people, to the border areas. On Sunday, the head of Belarus’s border guards accused Ukraine of provocations at the order.<\/p>\n

Russian forces used Belarus as a staging post for their Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, sending troops and equipment into northern Ukraine from bases in Belarus.<\/p>\n

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