Peter Stano, a spokesperson for the European Union's executive arm, urged Belarus to refrain from getting involved in the on-going war. 24 invasion of Ukraine, sending troops and equipment into northern Ukraine from bases in Belarus. Russian forces used Belarus as a staging post for their Feb. On Sunday, the head of Belarus's border guards accused Ukraine of provocations at the border. Russian (right) and Belarus soldiers during joint exercises of the armed forces, February 19 Earlier this year, Belarus deployed 6 battalion-tactical groups, totalling several thousand people, to the border areas. 'The training in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine of Belarusian radical militants for them to carry out sabotage, terrorist attacks and to organise a military mutiny in the country is becoming a direct threat,' Lukashenko said.īelarus's army has about 60,000 people. He also claimed Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were training Belarusian 'radicals' to carry out terror attacks in his country. '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'.' He said that a warning was delivered to Belarus through unofficial channels that Ukraine planned 'Crimean Bridge 2', though he did not give details. 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.
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