Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Belarus would not send its troops to fight in Ukraine but simultaneously blamed Western countries for prolonging the war and increasing military tensions in Europe.
Speaking at a ceremony honoring graduates of Belarusian military academies on Monday, July 6, Lukashenko claimed an international “war party” was determined to keep the conflict in Ukraine going.
Lukashenko sought to reassure Belarusian military personnel that they would not be deployed to Ukraine.
“I emphasize once again: No one will send you into this slaughter. We do not need war. It is bad that war is ongoing in Ukraine. We support a peaceful resolution,” he said, according to the Belarusian state news agency BelTA.
However, he argued that peace remains impossible because, in his words, an international “war party” does not want the conflict to end.
On June 29, Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Sekreta said Minsk would react forcefully to any unauthorized or hostile incursion, describing Belarus’s frontier as a “red line” already defined by Lukashenko.
“If the border is crossed without permission or in an aggressive manner, we will respond using our full potential and all our capabilities,” Sekreta said.
On June 15, Lukashenko had rejected the idea of Belarus entering the war, stating that any spillover of the conflict onto Belarusian territory was “absolutely unacceptable.”
Նյութերը գեներացվում են տարբեր կայքերից արհեստական բանականության միջոցով