Alexander Lukashenko said that the Belarusian military had transferred almost a third of the army to the border with Ukraine. Such a step had to be taken because Kiev not only "keeps more than 120 thousand troops near the border with Belarus," but also transferred additional forces, said Lukashenko in an interview with the Russian state TV channel Rossiya-1.
Lukashenko said Kiev had sent additional units to the border out of concern that Belarusian forces, along with Russian forces, could attack Ukraine from the direction of Gomel. Later, both Kiev and Minsk withdrew their forces, "which were in excess of 120,000." On both sides of the border remained those units that had been moved there at the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine.
Commenting on the AFU offensive in Kursk region, Lukashenko said that Ukraine is going for a higher rate. This, according to the authoritarian Belarusian leader, is wrong. "The military and Putin will die themselves, but they will demolish the Ukrainian military from there," Lukashenko said.
In addition, according to Lukashenko, Ukraine has already passed the stage of "denazification." "You talk sometimes about the Nazis. There are no Nazis there anymore. Ukraine has been denazified. But there are a few rabid Nazis, who remain there, but they are no longer in the trend," he said.
At the same time, Lukashenka emphasized that Moscow and Kiev should start negotiations.
Ukraine earlier said that the offensive in Kursk Region, which started on 6 August, among other things, should help Kiev get a better position in possible negotiations with the Russian side. Russian President Vladimir Putin said after the Ukrainian offensive that the dialog was futile.
The Washington Post recently reported that in August Russia and Ukraine were supposed to start indirect talks in Doha mediated by Qatar, but they were postponed indefinitely due to the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk Region. The newspaper's sources said that the sides had planned to discuss an agreement on mutual cessation of strikes on energy infrastructure.
After the AFU offensive in Kursk Region, the Russian delegation postponed the meeting and called Kiev's actions an "escalation". Despite the fact that the Ukrainian side expressed readiness to send its delegation to Doha in any case, Qatar refused to hold a unilateral meeting.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that The Washington Post's information did not correspond to reality. "No direct or indirect negotiations between Russia and the Kiev regime on the security of civilian critical infrastructure facilities have been and are being held," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Reprinted from ekhokavkaza.com
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