"If Putin goes to the dictator, then everything is not as good as he wanted... But he may be persuaded (

Putin Lukashenka will join the war against Ukraine. -

RS

).

This is one of Putin's dreams — to involve Lukashenka's regime and Belarus in a full-scale ground operation.

No matter how much of a dictator Lukashenka was... to this day he understood that such a decision would be absolute suicide for his regime and his army.

We hope that this instinct of self-preservation will be preserved.

Otherwise, the Ukrainian troops are ready for various scenarios," the Ukrainian service of Radio Svaboda quotes the representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

, Andrii Yusav

.

"There are no illusions about Lukashenka, but if there are strike groups, Ukraine will know about it and Ukrainians will know about it.

This will be public information from both the Ukrainian special services and our allies," added Yusov.