Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said that the situation on the Belarusian-Polish border reminds him of the events before the start of the Great Patriotic War. His words in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV channel leads TASS…
Thus, he compared the current build-up of NATO troops to the beginning of the war. “I’m afraid if the same is happening now. Are we at some stage of a certain preparation of a hot moment, ”he added, noting that in this situation it is very difficult to predict how events might develop.
Khrenin also called the increase in the number of Polish troops near the border a complex of measures to prepare for war. He expressed his wariness and concern about this, as well as a lack of understanding of such actions.
On November 19, it was reported that the British military arrived at the Polish-Belarusian border as part of the NATO Expanded Forward Presence program to assist the Polish Armed Forces in the fight against the migration crisis.
Earlier, the Minister of National Defense of Poland, Mariusz Blaschak, said that Warsaw had increased the number of military personnel operating on the border with Belarus to 15 thousand people.
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