NATO sees no evidence that Belarus wants to take an active part in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Despite the stationing of troops on the border with Ukraine, it is still believed that the country does not officially want to intervene in the war, a representative of the military alliance said on Wednesday at the sidelines of a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels. As a possible reason, he named the threat of sanctions from the West.
Referring to Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, he said: “I don’t think we should doubt that Lukashenko understands that the full force of the sanctions imposed on Russia will also be applied to Belarusif the Belarusian armed forces would conduct the same type of operations against Ukraine.”
Lukashenko had the last Formation of a joint regional military unit of the armed forces of his country with the Russian army announced. However, the country of ten million people has not yet actively participated in the war of aggression against Ukraine. According to the West, however, Belarus serves Russia as a deployment and retreat area.
Belarus is complicit in the fight against Ukraine because it allowed Russian troops to be deployed, emphasized the NATO representative, who did not want to be named. Among other things, it allowed ground and air attacks to be launched from Belarusian territory during the war.
