Belarus President Lukashenko urges Citizens to prepare for war mentally and physically
Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, has urged people to get ready for World War III “both mentally and strategically.” According to the BelTA news agency, he said this at a meeting with the heads of the state agencies in charge of national security.
“We do not want war, but we must be ready for it both mentally and strategically. As for realizing the seriousness of the moment. Let’s discard any illusions about the possibility of a diplomatic resolution to the global conflict. International law is also powerless to ease tensions,” he said.
Lukashenko noted the trend of NATO expansion, the threat from the “collective West,” and added that Belarus is “in the epicenter of a prolonged major military-political crisis.”
In the past, Lukashenko claimed that as part of NATO operations in Europe, about 32,000 military personnel from the US joint armed forces and NATO, along with “more than a thousand units of armored vehicles, about 160 artillery systems and mortars, 235 aircraft and helicopters,” were stationed close to Belarus and Russia’s borders.
NATO started the Steadfast Defender drills in late January on German, Polish, and Baltic territory.
Approximately 90,000 military people, 50 warships, 80 aircraft, and over a thousand ground equipment units—133 tanks among them—will be involved in the maneuvers. It is anticipated that military forces will encircle the Kaliningrad area throughout the drills.
