Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned Sunday that Ukraine is also amassing troops on Belarus' border amid the ongoing incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast.
Lukashenko alleged that Kiev has positioned more than 120,000 soldiers along its border with Belarus and this is being deemed an act of 'aggression' by military authorities. But it is curious where Ukraine got the manpower for this, if accurate.
State-run BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying, "Seeing their aggressive policy, we have introduced there and placed in certain points – in case of war, they would be defense – our military along the entire border."
Thus he made it clear that Belarusian forces could counter-attack into Ukraine if Minsk observes any Ukrainian incursion on its sovereign territory.
These extreme border tensions are nothing new, given Belarus has long been a logistics hub and staging ground for Russia's Ukraine operations; however, the whole Kursk shock cross-border operation has certainly upped the ante.
While these constitute serious threats from Lukashenko, it is as yet unclear how many regular army troops have been sent to bolster the state security services' some 12,000 border guards already typically deployed.
Meanwhile, Russia has launched another ballistic missile attack on Kiev in retaliation for the Kursk invasion. This one was an early morning Sunday assault, with the Kyiv City Military Administration stating on Telegram: "This is the third ballistic missile attack on the capital in August with a clear interval of six days between each attack." Drones were also sent, with Ukraine's military saying it intercepted all of them.
Also, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued new warnings and concerns over the situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which since early in the war has been occupied by Russian troops and authorities. The IAEA warned the safety of the complex is "deteriorating" following a nearby weekend drone strike. The IAEA further—
...warned on Saturday of an escalation in the security dangers at the plant, reporting "intense" military activity over the past week in the area, including very close to the plant.
...IAEA experts on site reported that the damage "seemed to have been caused by a drone equipped with an explosive payload", affecting the road between the plant’s two main gates.
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