Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday accused the Ukrainian regime of having (unsuccessfully) attacked Belarus, firing missiles to hit military targets on Belarusian territory. The missiles will have been intercepted.
So far, Lukashenko has not provided evidence to confirm what would be a Ukrainian military attack on a country other than Russia — which militarily invaded Ukraine.
In March, the Belarusian regime had already accused kyiv of having fired a missile at its territory, which was also allegedly intercepted. Also about this alleged attack, no evidence was presented at the time.
Now the Belarusian president, a close ally of Putin, claims that the aforementioned missiles were fired from Ukraine at Belarus almost three days ago. He added that while his country does not want to go to war with Ukraine, he will. defend if territory is invaded.
Zelensky says that the Kremlin “has already decided” that Belarus will go to war and urges the population to revolt
The information is reported by Reuters, which cites the Belarusian state news agency Belta. “They are provoking us. I have to tell you: three days ago, maybe a little more, an attempt was made from the territory of Ukraine to attack Belarusian military facilities,” Lukashenko said. “But, thank God, Pantsir’s anti-aircraft systems were able to intercept all missiles launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, he concluded.
Alexander Lukashenko is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s main allies in Eastern Europe. In March, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya described the head of state as “a puppet”, going so far as to say that “Putin controls the country through him”.
Lukashenko says he has “enough intelligence” not to invade Ukraine, but says Putin “will not lose this war”
Source: Observadora
