Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, has stated that the Belarusian army will join the Russian Armed Forces only in the event of an attack on Belarus.

Source: Belarusian state-owned media agency Belta, cited by European Pravda

“For now, I am ready to join Russians in the war from the territory of Belarus only in one case: if soldiers come from there to kill my people. If they were to attack Belarus, the retaliation would be most brutal. And the war would take on a completely different character,” he said.

Lukashenko emphasised that this applies not only to Ukraine, but to all other neighbouring countries.

He voiced his confidence that Ukraine was only a pretext for waging a war that the West was actively pushing towards. “You blame Russia. Oh, but you want to dismember Ukraine at the hands of the Poles,” Lukashenko said.

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Returning to the question of whether aggression on the part of Belarus is possible, Lukashenko once again repeated: “We are peaceful people. We know what war is. We do not want a war. And we are not going to place our troops into the territory of Ukraine under any circumstances. That is, unless you carry out aggression on the territory of Belarus from the outside. Here is my answer. It was given a long time ago.”

Read more: Ukrayinska Pravda