Ukrainian officials on Wednesday indicated they are prepared if Russian ally Belarus joins the conflict as the country suddenly announced it would conduct combat exercises.
The Belarusian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that the exercises would allow its military to operate on “unknown terrain in a rapidly changing situation,” reported state-run media. Before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, thousands of Russian troops massed on the Belarus-Ukraine border and used the country as a staging area to enter Ukraine.
The training exercise will not “pose any threat to the European community as a whole or to neighboring countries in particular,” the ministry added, according to state media reports. Belarus and Ukraine share a lengthy border, while Belarus also borders Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Russia.
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