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Belarus is sending special forces to three areas close to its southern border with war-torn Ukraine, its Ministry of Defense announced Tuesday. The Russia-aligned nation will also prepare air defense, missile units, and artillery for drills in.
Belarus’s Ministry of Defense announced Tuesday that it is deploying troops near its border with Ukraine, arguing that a massing of Ukrainian forces and increased NATO activity in the region poses “a growing threat.”
Russian military exercises in Belarus would continue, Minsk announced yesterday, leaving Moscow with a large force near the northern Ukraine border as Western powers warn of an imminent invasion.
The announcement came as French President Emmanuel Macron called Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a last-ditch effort to avert a Russian invasion, his office said.
The call, which lasted 105 minutes, came two weeks after Macron went to Moscow to persuade Putin to hold back from sending troops massed on the border.
It represented “the final possible and necessary efforts to avoid a major conflict in Ukraine,” the Elysee said ahead of the