The Gentleman Report
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Belarus despatched army reinforcements to its border with Ukraine Saturday after it mentioned a number of Ukrainian drones crossed its airspace and had been intercepted by way of the rustic’s air defenses on Friday, Belarusian Protection Minister Viktor Khrenin mentioned in a observation.
“We suspect those are assault drones,” Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko mentioned all the way through a separate briefing Saturday. He referred to as the incident “a provocation” and mentioned “the overall team of workers of Belarus has been ordered to take related measures to make sure the safety of the state.”
“Ukrainians display on this approach that they don’t seem to be able for peace and proceed to escalate this stress,” Lukashenko mentioned, talking of the hot Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory.
Khrenin informed newshounds “bearing in mind the location in Ukraine and within the Kursk area of Russia” Lukashenko “has ordered to give a boost to the grouping of troops” within the Gomel and Mozyr spaces bordering Ukraine “with a view to reply” to Ukrainian “provocations.”
“Army devices of particular operations forces, floor troops and rocket forces, together with ‘Polonez’ techniques and ‘Iskander’ (ballistic missile) complexes, had been tasked with marching to the designated spaces. Air protection, rocket protection and aviation forces and belongings had been built-up,” Khrenin mentioned.
On Saturday, the Belarusian International Ministry summoned the Price d’Affaires of Ukraine and “lodged a robust protest” in reference to the incident, the ministry mentioned in a submit on X.
“The Ukrainian diplomat used to be warned that during case of repetition of such provocations #Belarus reserves the correct to take retaliatory steps to offer protection to its territory,” the ministry mentioned, including it “might query the need of the continuing presence of the #Ukrainian diplomatic undertaking in Minsk.”
The ministry blamed Ukraine for “legal movements” to “radically escalate the location and constitute a deadly try to make bigger the zone of the present warfare in our area.” It requested the remainder of Europe not to escalate the location.
Ukraine has now not publicly commented on Belarus’ accusations.
“We enchantment to the peoples of neighboring Europe: within the tournament of a ramification of the warfare, the hearth will unfold right through the area, together with to the EU international locations. There can be no winners!” the ministry mentioned on X.
Belarusian state media BelTA mentioned Saturday the International Ministry will start up consultations with allies and companions, in addition to world organizations following the incident.
