About 32,000 NATO soldiers, over 1,000 armored vehicles, 235 airplanes and helicopters are deployed near Russia's and Belarus's borders, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.
"The situation is no calmer on the European continent, including near our borders. In the immediate vicinity of Belarus and Russia, as part of the alliance's operations in Europe, about 32,000 soldiers of the contingents of the united armed forces of NATO and the United States are stationed. There are more than 1,000 armored vehicles, about 160 artillery systems and mortars, 235 airplanes and helicopters," Lukashenko was quoted as saying by the Pul Pervogo Telegram channel.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Georgia and Serbia will be drawn into NATO just like the scenario of the situation in Ukraine, Lukashenko added.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko thinks that worries over the potential start of World War Three are quite valid because military force has become the main default argument of global decision-making centers.
"Military force has again become the main argument put forth by global decision-making centers. As if there had never been millions of losses [in human lives] and the horrors of the First and Second World Wars," the BelTA news agency quoted him as saying at a meeting with top national security officials.
"Now we have been literally engulfed by an informational wave of so-called foreboding of a Third World War, which has been bandied about by everybody and their uncle. And there are [legitimate] grounds for such concerns," the Belarusian president emphasized.
Lukashenko noted that tens of thousands of NATO servicemen, and hundreds of units of military hardware, aircraft and helicopters are being deployed near the borders of Russia and Belarus.
"There are about 32,000 servicemen from unified contingents of NATO and the US armed forces stationed in the immediate vicinity of Belarus and Russia, within the framework of the alliance’s operations being conducted in Europe. This is more than 1,000 units of armor, about 160 artillery systems and mortars, 235 aircraft and helicopters," the Pul Pervogo Telegram channel, which is close to the Belarusian presidential press service, quoted him as saying.
In recent years, Russia has witnessed unprecedented NATO activity near its western borders. Moscow has repeatedly expressed concern about the alliance's buildup of forces in Europe, especially since the bloc supported the Kiev regime amid its attacks on Donbass. Since the start of Russia's special military operation, NATO countries have supplied Ukraine with military equipment. Moscow has repeatedly stressed that any Western weapons in Ukraine will become legitimate targets for Russian strikes.
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