Meanwhile, Putin flies to Belarus amid fear he intends to pressure former Soviet ally to join ground offensive
amid fear in Kyiv that he intends to pressure the former Soviet ally to join a new ground offensive against Ukraine and reopen a new front.
His visit for talks with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko will be his first to Minsk since 2019 – before the pandemic and a wave of Belarusian protests in 2020 that Lukashenko crushed with strong support from the Kremlin. “During [these talks] questions will be worked out for further aggression against Ukraine and the broader involvement of the Belarusian armed forces in the operation against Ukraine, in particular, in our opinion, also on the ground,” Ukrainian joint forces commander Serhiy Naev said.
Moscow and Minsk have since set up a joint regional unit of forces in Belarus and held numerous military exercises. Three Russian warplanes and an airborne early warning and control aircraft were deployed to Belarus last week.
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