Minsk says Kiev clearly indicates situation related to Russian aggression – Panorama International
MINSK, 6 February. /TASS/. The Ukrainian authorities are clearly heating up the situation when they announce the impending aggression of Russia, including with the territory of Belarus. This was stated on Sunday by the Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich on the air of the TV channel ONT.
“Look at what is happening in Ukraine now, they are clearly prompting, they are heating up the situation, they are constantly talking about the aggression of the Russian Federation of Belarus, already from the territory. According to him, various fakes are used to “warm up his feelings.”
“According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, today the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has about five or six of my high-level advisers, military advisers. And at the operational level, there are more than 64 such advisers,” Volfovich said.
According to him, there is a “frantic militarization” of neighboring countries on its territory. “Includes a significant amount of money in the military. Let’s take a look and ask the question: so who spends more on defense and who is arming today?” Volfovich noted. According to him, Poland spends on defense “about $14 billion, Ukraine this year swung at $15.5 billion, Lithuania spends on defense and uses 2.1% of GDP, Latvia the same, Poland – 2.2% of GDP” . At the same time, in Belarus, in terms of the construction and development of the armed forces, defense is expected to correspond to 1.5% of GDP. “This is much less than our neighbors spend,” he said.
Recently, in Western countries, as well as in Kiev, the possible invasion of Russia on the Ukrainian theme has been assessed. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov called such information empty and unfounded escalation of stress. He said that Russia poses no threat to anyone, and recalled that all vehicles move on its own territory. At the same time, Peskov does not rule out the possibility of provocations to justify such demands and warned that the consequences of a forceful solution to the crisis in the south-reproduction of Ukraine will have the most serious consequences.