“My task is to warn my neighbors: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, maybe, to some extent, Ukraine. God forbid they commit aggression against Belarus. We don’t want war, we’re not going to fight with them,” he said.
Lukashenko claims that Belarus will defend itself “by all available means” in the event of aggression.
“This does not mean that tomorrow, if some kind of confrontation breaks out there, we will strike with nuclear weapons those countries through which or from whose territory aggression will be carried out against us. We have enough other weapons to counter this,” he said.
Lukashenko recalled that Belarus entered into an agreement with the aggressor country of the Russian Federation, and it will supposedly help it defend itself. “It won’t seem like enough. And we will use everything we have,” Lukashenko said.
Context
On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in particular from Belarus, although a few days before this, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin assured his Ukrainian colleague that There are no threats to Ukraine from Belarus. Also then With territory of Belarus occupiers launched missiles at Ukrainian targets.
According to sources of the Center for National Resistance, created by the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine, the military-political leadership of Belarus is seeking to avoid participation in hostilities.
At the same time, at the beginning of April 2026 Following a large-scale inspection of the combat readiness of the armed forces of Belarus, Lukashenko said that the country preparing for war and “there can be no time of peace.” Later, he called on the country's citizens to mobilize, because he does not know “what the powers that be will do.”
