The warning is from the Russian president himself. Vladimir Putin announced on Friday that Moscow will use “all means” to protect ally Belarus from possible attacks.
Putin warned that an attack on the country led by Alexander Lukashenko is an attack on Russia.
“Unleashing aggression against Belarus means aggression against the Russian Federation,” he said at the Kremlin Security Council meeting.
Moscow would respond to an attack on Belarus “with all the means at our disposal,” he added.
These statements by Putin come after it became known that Poland decided to move military formations to the border with Belarus. Polish troops will move to the east of the country because of the possible threat from the Wagner group in neighboring Belarus, The Guardian wrote on Friday.
This is reported by the Polish state news agency PAP. Zbigniew Hoffmann, secretary of the country’s security committee, said: “Joint training or exercises between the Belarusian army and the Wagner group is undoubtedly a provocation.”
“The Security Committee analyzed possible threats, such as the relocation of units of the Wagner group. Therefore, the Minister of National Defense, the chairman of the Committee, Mariusz Blaszczak, decided to move our military formations from the west to the east of Poland.” , he said Hoffmann, quoted by PAP.
“If Polish units enter Lviv or other Ukrainian areas, they will stay there. Forever,” Putin warns
During today’s intervention, the Russian leader described Poland and Lithuania’s alleged plans to form a grouping of regular forces for the purpose of occupying western Ukraine as a “very dangerous game”.
“The perspective is clear. For example, if Polish units enter Lviv or other Ukrainian areas, they will stay there. Forever,” he underlined. Putin, who accused the Polish government of wanting to “form some kind of coalition and get directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine” to retake what they consider to be “historic areas” in western Ukraine.
“And it is known that they also desire Belarusian territories,” added the Russian leader, who accused rulers of Eastern European countries of making “Russophobia” an instrument of internal policy.
As a precaution, Putin announced that he had instructed Serguei Narishkin, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), who was also present at the meeting, to closely monitor developments in the region.
The Russian president also said Western weapons and aid to Kiev are not helping Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin said the Kiev counter-offensive, launched to repel Russian forces in southern and eastern Ukraine, failed despite military and financial support from Western countries.
“There are still no results” of the counteroffensive, the Russian president said in televised remarks. “Neither the colossal resources pumped into the Kiev regime nor Western stockpiles of weapons, tanks, artillery, armored vehicles and missiles help,” he claimed.
With Lusa
Source: DN
