In a potential move towards formally joining the war in Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday that he has order troops to join Russian forces in a deployment near the border of Ukraine.
In a press conference from Minsk on Monday, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko announced that he would be sending troops to the northern border of Ukraine in a joint deployment with the Russian military following a meeting with Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg over the weekend.
“We agreed to deploy a regional group of forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus,” Lukashenko said in comments reported by state news agency Belta.
The decision is believed to have been prompted by the attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge that connects the Russian mainland and the Crimean peninsula, a move that Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed was a terrorist attack orchestrated by the Ukrainian government.
