The Russian army is stuck in Ukraine, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked his Belarusian counterpart, Aleksandr Lukashenko, to open a second front against Ukraine and assist in attacks against NATO, writes The Moscow Times. Otherwise, he threatened to cut off his financial support.
Moscow began exerting pressure at the beginning of this year, in the hope that it could once again use Belarus to expand its military campaign against Ukraine or for operations against NATO countries, former and current Russian and European officials told The Wall Street Journal.
The information reached the knowledge of Europe and Kiev. Emmanuel Macron and Volodimir Zelenski warned Lukashenko, including publicly.
However, according to WSJ sources, Moscow’s pressure has increased. Recently, Russia has specifically requested to use the territory of Belarus for drone attacks on Ukraine and to open a new front closer to the western regions of the country, so that the Ukrainian army would be forced to shift its attention from defending the areas in the east.
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