Lukashenko claims Ukraine was preparing to strike not only Donbas, but also Belarus
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk, Belarus April 16, 2021. Sputnik/Alexander Astafyev/Pool via REUTERS
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has accused Ukrainian forces of having prepared to strike not only Donbas but also Belarus.
"If a preemptive strike hadn't been delivered six hours before the operation upon the positions, four positions, I'll show you, I've brought a map with me, they'd have attacked our troops, Belarusian and Russian ones, which were conducting exercises," Lukashenko said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday.
"Again, they were preparing to strike not only Donbas, but they also formed positions to launch a strike upon Belarus," he said.
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