Alexander Lukashenko said he deployed nearly a third of Belarus' armed forces to its border with Ukraine this summer following a build-up of Kyiv's troops.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said that he deployed nearly a third of Belarus' armed forces to its border with Ukraine earlier this summer following a buildup of Kyiv's troops.Lukashenko, a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Ukraine maintains more than 120,000 soldiers on its northern border with Belarus as they believe ' Putin will attack again from Belarusian territory.
'We asked: 'Why are you doing this?' They honestly told us: 'You are going to attack us with the Russians near Gomel.' We had no such goal.'He said that a certain number troops have been removed on both sides, but added that Belarusian soldiers would remain along its border with Ukraine. 'It is like death for us to remove our troops from the border with Ukraine. The war is ongoing,' he said.
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