{"id":45735,"date":"2023-02-16T16:17:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lukasenka-says-he-can-attack-ukraine-if-belarus-is-attacked\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lukasenka-says-he-can-attack-ukraine-if-belarus-is-attacked","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45735\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka says he can attack Ukraine if Belarus is attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>February 16, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka has told foreign journalists that he is &#8220;ready to go to war together with the Russians&#8221; against Ukraine from Belarus if &#8220;at least one soldier crosses into the Belarusian territory to kill my people.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t He stressed that he did not want to fight and was not going to send his troops to Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Moscow has never asked Belarus to join its war against Ukraine, even though Russia and Belarus are allies and have a joint regional group of forces, he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t But he said he would not mind Russia\u2019s using Belarus\u2019 territory to invade Ukraine again, according to a BBC reporter who attended the press conference.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In February 2022, Russia started a full-scale war against Ukraine. \u0141uka\u0161enka admitted that Belarus participated in Russia&#8217;s war on Ukraine, but said it was &#8220;not killing anyone.&#8221; A 20,000-strong grouping of Russian forces crossed into Ukraine from Belarus at the outset of the war. Russian troops retreated from northern Ukraine later.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Authorities in Minsk denied Belarusian troops\u2019 involvement in combat operations on the Russian side. However, Belarus allowed Russian troops and weapons to move freely through the country, use its airspace, refuel and store military equipment and attack Ukraine from its territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 16, BPN. 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