Belarus Shuts Western Borders as Lukashenko Warns of ‘War’

Belarus will certainly close its borders with Poland as well as Lithuania as well as step up safety measures at the Ukrainian frontier, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed Thursday.

His statement featured a caution that the nations could come down into war as he continues at fault Western impact for a continual demonstration activity that burst out after his questioned re-election.

” We’re compelled to withdraw our soldiers from the streets, placed half the army under arms and shut the state boundary from the West, primarily Lithuania and Poland,” Lukashenko, who has actually ruled Belarus with an authoritarian grasp because 1994, said.

” Unfortunately, we’re required to enhance the state border with our fraternal Ukraine,” Lukashenko included at a women’s online forum, according to the independent information web site tut.by.

Lithuania, Poland and also Ukraine have revealed “deep concern” towards the fierce crackdown on anti-Lukashenko protesters that instantly adhered to last month’s presidential political election. Lithuania and its Baltic next-door neighbors Latvia as well as Estonia have actually blacklisted Lukashenko and also dozens of various other Belarusian authorities over the physical violence, while Lithuania opened its borders to Belarusians getting away the country, including resistance leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

Lukashenko alerted Thursday that he’s “required” to develop a “usual protection of the Union State together with the Russian head of state and defense preacher,” the Poland-based Belsat broadcaster reported. Lukashenko met President Vladimir Putin in Russia today, where he protected the Russian president’s support as well as a $1.5 billion loan for stronger connections with Moscow.

” I don’t desire my country to be at war. Furthermore, I don’t desire Belarus as well as Poland, Lithuania to develop into a movie theater of army procedures,” Lukashenko claimed at the ladies’s discussion forum Thursday.

” Therefore … I want to attract the peoples of Lithuania, Poland as well as Ukraine– stop your crazy politicians, don’t let battle break out!”

Before the Aug. 9 ballot, Belarus punished its boundary with Russia as it searched for scores of mercenaries it had actually declared to be from the Kremlin-linked Wagner military service provider.

Belarus has been just one of the few nations worldwide to keep its boundaries open throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

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