In the midst of ongoing Russian bombardment, Ukrainian President Zelensky stated that Russia may be preparing an act of aggression against NATO members by next year.
This was at the Munch Security Conference, April 25.
He specified that this major military escalation would come from the launchpad of Belarus, just as it did in 2022, when it used Minsk for “military drills” which facilitated the invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia is preparing 15 divisions. Around 100-150,000 troops are being trained to aggravate the situation on the Belarus direction”, Zelenskyy said.
He condemned the US for halting its support.
Unfortunately, it’s not a desperate and subjective exaggeration.
Earlier this week, the Danish Defence Intelligence Service issued a similar warning, saying that Russia may find the opportunity to launch a large-scale war on Europe within five years if Moscow “perceives NATO as militarily weakened or politically divided”.
President Alexander Lukashenko himself boasted, after receiving security guarantees from Putin, that Belarus is not only hosting dozens of Russian nuclear weapons but that it also would prepare facilities for the planned deployment of Moscow’s newest hypersonic ballistic missile.
The pact followed Moscow’s revision of its nuclear doctrine, which for the first time placed Belarus under the Russian atomic umbrella amid the tensions with the West over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
