President additionally mentioned there might be an ‘apocalypse’ if Russia used nuclear weapons in retaliation for Western actions.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has mentioned that the chance of army incidents alongside his nation’s border with Ukraine was fairly excessive, in accordance with Russia’s state-run RIA information company.
Belarus had moved a number of combat-ready battalions from Vitebsk area, located on its border with Russia, to the western limits of the nation, he mentioned on Thursday, as delegates of the All-Belarusian Folks’s Meeting (VNS) unanimously accredited a brand new army doctrine emphasising that Belarus is a peace-loving nation.
Lukashenko added that neighbouring Poland – to the nation’s west – shouldn’t count on aggressive actions from Belarus, the report mentioned.
The up to date doc listed the nations from which threats emanate, the vary of inside and exterior threats to army safety, and the place on the usage of tactical nuclear weapons, the report mentioned with out elaborating on the nations named.
Lukashenko, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has ceaselessly talked up the hazards of an assault by NATO or Ukraine as justification for sustaining his army and safety equipment on a continuing state of excessive alert.
The army doctrine declared Belarus’s readiness to behave as a platform for the peaceable decision of conflicts and its openness to cooperation within the army sphere with any states, together with NATO, RIA reported.
Russian state information company TASS quoted Lukashenko as saying there might be an “apocalypse” if Russia used nuclear weapons in retaliation for Western actions.
Russia has deployed tactical nuclear weapons, missiles and troops within the nation.
At Thursday’s VNS assembly, Lukashenko alleged that the opposition deliberate to grab a district within the west of the nation and request assist from NATO troops, in accordance with RIA.
“I don’t know why they selected Kobrin district, they speak lots about it. [They plan to] seize it … and attraction to NATO to deploy troops,” Lukashenko claimed.
It was not clear if he supplied any proof for such a plan. All the nation’s important opposition figures are in jail or have been pressured into exile.