Ukraine Sees High Risk Of Attack Coming From Belarus

Ukraine sees a high risk of attack on the region of Volyn being launched from Belarus, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office has said.

Aljazeera reports that it was not immediately clear whether Ukraine saw the threat of an attack on Volyn from Russian forces or the Belarusian military.

Belarus has served as a staging post for Russian troops, missiles, and aircraft, both before and after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, but it has not deployed its own forces in active battle.

It should be noted that Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that his country had intercepted a missile fired at it two days ago from Ukraine.

Lukashenko said the missile was intercepted and destroyed by Belarus with help from Russia over the Pripyat area, near the Ukrainian border.

Lukashenko was quoted as saying; “I warned you that they would push us into this operation, into this war.”

“There’s nothing for us to do there, and we haven’t been invited. I want to emphasize again, we are not going to become involved in this operation that Russia is conducting in Ukraine.”

The Ukrainian government accused Russia last week of staging false flag air attacks on Belarus from Ukraine to provide an excuse for Russia’s close ally.