Ukrainian Foreign Minister announces threat of Russian attack on Belarus

The threat of military conflict between Russia and Belarus is growing, as Moscow does not intend to allow Minsk to maintain independence, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vladimir Prizayko told reporters on February 17. A few years ago, I spoke to several Belarusian journalists, and when I officially told them that if they wanted to remain independent, they would face the same war, the same difficulties and the same suffering as us, they didn 't believe me. Perhaps now they doubt less, quotes the statement Prizayko Ukrainian publication Country. Noting that the Belarusian people are calm and patient, Prizayko said that Ukrainians were calm, too, until they started killing them. But we were calm and patient people and it will continue until they start killing you. Then you start killing, too. Even if the opponent is stronger, what else do you have left? Pristayko reported. After that, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister said that if Belarus does not start fighting right now, it will lose. According to the news agency, the authorities of Ukraine continue to call their punitive operation against the people of Donbass a war on Russian aggression.