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Belarusian Sources See Lingering Russian Threat to Ukraine's North, Disagree on Belarus' Role

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Belarusian Sources See Lingering Russian Threat to Ukraine's North, Disagree on Belarus' Role

Exiled Belarusian sources say recent Russian military activities inside Belarus, a key Moscow ally, show Russia is trying to maintain a threat of attack from Belarus against northern Ukraine after failing in a land-based assault on the region housing Ukraine's capital Kyiv earlier this year. While the Belarusian journalists, analysts and dissidents say another Russian invasion of northern Ukraine from Belarus does not appear imminent, that prospect has sparked a debate among them about whether the forces of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko would join such a Russian offensive. Belarus-based Russian forces pushed into northern Ukraine at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of the country in late February in a bid to capture Kyiv, a 150-kilometer drive from the Belarusian border. Lukashenko kept his forces out of direct involvement in the invasion, while publicly supporting it and allowing Russia's military to use Belarusian territory and infrastructure.
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