Belarus pulls Iskanders and Polonezes to Ukraine border

Major-General Pavlo Muraveiko, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Belarus, ordered to send troops, Polonez rocket systems and Iskander complexes to the border with Ukraine. They are supposed to be deployed in the Gomel and Mozyr tactical directions.

We assess Ukraine's actions as a provocation against Belarus," he said.

According to Telegram, head of the Centre for Countering Disinformation (CCD) Andrei Kovalenko, Lukashenko's regime is trying to help the Kremlin head Vladimir Putin in the war in this way.

Pulling weapons from Belarus to the border area is an attempt to help Putin and divert the attention of the Ukrainian command in that direction," he wrote.

However, according to him, the head of the Belarusian regime, Alexander Lukashenko, understands the consequences of any provocations.

Earlier, self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko accused Ukraine of violating the airspace. He said that allegedly Ukrainian drones were shot down in Belarus.

Polonez is a Belarusian 301-mm multiple rocket launcher system. The system is designed for high-precision defeat of manpower, unarmoured and armoured military vehicles and other objects.

Iskander are Russian operational-tactical missile systems. "Iskander-M" is a ballistic missile. Earlier, Alexander Lukashenko said that Belarus had received two divisions of Iskander-M missile systems.