- The possible attack would add to the open front in the Donbas region.
- Biden sends a new package of weapons to Ukraine valued at 1.2 billion dollars.
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| File image of the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky. / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENCY |
The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has instructed the military authorities in the north of the country to verify the status of the troops in the face of a possible attack from Belarus.
"We have discussed what is happening right now in Belarus, in what state is the Belarusian Army, how many Russian troops are there, and what plans do they have," explained the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksi Danilov.
"As a result, the president has given an order to review ranks in four (northern) regions in the face of the possibility that we may face a challenge against our country," he added in comments collected by Interfax.
Belarus is one of the great allies of Russia in the invasion of Ukraine. The country's president, Aleksander Lukashenko, has assured that his country is not directly involved in the conflict and even the Ukrainian authorities themselves consider it unlikely that the president will give "in the near future" an order for the start of a military operation against the country.
However, Belarus is in an exceptional position for a possible attack from the south that would add to the open front in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and would force the exhausted Ukrainian Army to weaken its troops to protect itself from this new advance.