Lukashenko complains to Putin about fortified Ukrainian border

During a meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on April 12, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said that there is no need for Belarus to enter the war against Ukraine, adding that the Ukrainian-Belarusian border is "mined and fortified."

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In a Telegram post, Russian state propaganda quoted Lukashenko as saying that “has not been and never will be necessary” for Belarus to directly help Russia fight Ukraine.

The Belarusian leader also claimed that calls for Belarus to fight against Ukraine are "NATO's doing" and insisted he doesn’t want the "brotherly Ukrainian people to suffer."

“These calls for Belarus to go to war against Ukraine are to NATO's benefit,” said Lukashenko.

“They want it and are doing everything to drag us into the war. What would happen? A front in Ukraine is a thousand kilometers. Not easy... Half of our country within a 100 kilometers radius from Kyiv...”

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According to him, if Belarus entered the war against Ukraine, "it would achieve nothing."

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“They’ve barricaded the border with Belarus so tightly you can’t even get near it,” Lukashenko continued.

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“It's fully mined, fortified with concrete, and there are 120,000 Ukrainian troops on the border. They want to move them to the front against Russia, replacing them with French [troops] there.”

Lukashenko concluded by saying that Russia "needs Belarus as it is now—peaceful, quiet, calm, doing its own thing."

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