BELARUS STARTS MILITARY DRILLS, LUKASHENKO THREATENS NATO WITH RUSSIA

SOURCE: MIL.BY

29 August 2020 BELARUS STARTS MILITARY DRILLS, LUKASHENKO THREATENS NATO WITH RUSSIA

Belarus started on Friday, August 28, three-day military drills in the western region of Grodno. On the same day, Alexander Lukashenko warned North Atlantic Alliance states that both Minsk and Moscow will be ready to pacify adversary. This confirms that Belarus is part of the Russian military theater. Even if there are now no Russian tanks waiting on the country’s borders with Poland and Lithuania, it serves as an actual borderline between Russia and NATO countries.

The Belarusian defense ministry stated that Belarus would hold tactical drills in the western Grodno region, right off its border with Poland, after Lukashenko had ordered to beef up the military there amidst a plausible intervention from NATO states, including Poland and Lithuania. The Belarusian dictator on Friday, August 28, said Belarus and Russia would use a joint group of armed forces if Western forces attacked the country’s border. What might pose a threat, according to Lukashenko, are U.S. F-16 jets to be moved to Poland from Germany. Held between August 28 and August 31, Belarus’s war games are conducted by the Western Operational Command. Helicopters will