The President of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko, said today that he will decide soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin when to withdraw Russian troops from the border with Ukraine, but reiterated that this will happen only once the joint military exercises have ended. on the 20th “We will withdraw (the troops) when we decide with the Russian president and when the maneuvers -Allied Determination-2022- have ended. We will make the decision: it is our territory,” he stressed in a meeting with the Ukrainian politician Alexander Moroz. 

“We will meet in the near future and decide when, in what timeframe, according to what schedule to withdraw the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from here. This is our business,” Lukashenko added. ” Look what the Americans are doing, they are moving thousands of (soldiers) to our border, directly to Poland, to the Baltic States. The British and other European countries bring Armed Forces and the reasonable question is: when will you withdraw them?” Lukashenko said. “They do not talk about this, but they put pressure on us,” he said. The Belarusian president noted that it was decided to reinforce the southern border of Belarus, which abuts Ukraine, “because of what is happening there.”

“Before this hysteria (around the Belarusian-Russian exercise) we decided to conduct exercises in the south of our republic. We had to decide where we should keep a small number of troops because of what is happening in Ukraine: this flow of weapons (from the West), our fugitives (the opposition), this meeting will be held this Monday and it comes after the Baltic countries already activated this mechanism on the 9th to demand a response from Belarus by the 11th. Minsk’s reaction did not satisfy them, so they have taken another step and they requested a direct meeting with Belarus.

Ukraine activated the same mechanism to force Russia to come to the table and provide details of the Russian military presence on Ukraine’s borders, an appointment that must be convened within 48 hours. Ukraine activated the same mechanism to force Russia to come to the table and provide details of the Russian military presence on Ukraine’s borders, an appointment that must be convened within 48 hours. 

Ukraine activated the same mechanism to force Russia to come to the table and provide details of the Russian military presence on Ukraine’s borders, an appointment that must be convened within 48 hours. 

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