Despite the threat from
Belarus
, as of the morning of December 18, the situation on the northern border remains under control.
This was stated by the spokesman of the State Border Service Andriy Demchenko on the air of the telethon.
He clarified that at the moment the border guards do not observe any significant changes in the situation near the border, nor the movement of enemy military equipment.
The spokesman of the State Security Service assured that the Ukrainian side is monitoring the actions of the Belarusian military itself, their interaction with the Russian army.
"But of course we have to be ready for any situation. We continue to do that," said Demchenko.
Threat from Belarus
Dictator Lukashenko, who supports Putin in the war against Ukraine, on December 13 instructed his subordinates to start checking
combat readiness
his army
In a few days, the Belarusian military, which took part in a sudden "check of combat readiness", was transferred from the Ukrainian border
back to the places of permanent deployment
.
In addition, the rivers over which the Belarusians built bridges are located far from the Ukrainian border.
According to military expert Serhii Grabskyi, Russia is preparing for revenge and may launch a major offensive in the winter-spring of 2023.
In this context, he considers
the direction of Belarus quite a priority.
Commander of the Operational Command "South" of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Andriy Kovalchuk said that Ukraine is preparing for the fact that Russian troops may again try to
invade Ukraine's northern border through Belarus
to attack Kyiv.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny also warned that the Russian Federation is preparing about 200,000 new soldiers and that he has no doubts that
the Russian army will make another attempt to attack Kyiv.
Meanwhile, American analysts of the Institute for the Study of War consider it unlikely that the army of Belarus will invade Ukraine.
They believe that all recent maneuvers in Belarus
are part of Russian information operations.
British intelligence is convinced that Belarusian troops and Russian units stationed in the Republic of Belarus are
currently unable to carry out a successful offensive in the north of Ukraine.
Andrii Yusov, the spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, also reassures and says that today
Belarus is not ready to fully participate
in a ground operation against Ukraine.
Currently, RB is used by Russia as a training ground for training, partially mobilized, as well as a base for the supply of weapons, particularly heavy ones.
Military expert Oleg Zhdanov points out that the Belarusian army does not plan to fight against Ukraine, but
Lukashenka needs to show Putin that he is preparing for an invasion.
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