In the United Kingdom, the probability of Putin's chief ally in the war with Ukraine was estimated

It should be noted that on Thursday, September 8, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced that it began military exercises designed to work out "dismissal of the territory temporarily occupied by the enemy". The training will last until September 14, near the city of Brest, which is near the border with Poland, as well as around Minsk and in the northeast of the Vitebsk region.

"Although the use of the Belarusian territory played an important role in the unsuccessful offensive of Russia in Kyiv at the beginning of the invasion, the Belarusian forces have limited offensive opportunities, and there is a low probability that they transferred their forces to Ukraine," the UK Defense Ministry wrote in the intelligence report P. zeat. . The report also states that it is unlikely that new training is a sign of preparation for the direct participation of Belarus in the war.

According to Newsweek, Lukashenko did not enter troops into Ukraine, but allowed President Vladimir Putin to place his troops in Belarus, so that they would then begin an unsuccessful offensive on Kyiv. Journalists recalled that Putin at the Bilateral Forum in the Belarusian city of Grodno in July stated that "unprecedented" sanctions imposed against Russia and Belarus in response to an invasion of Ukraine, were pushed by two countries to "unification".

At the same time, Putin wants Lukashenko to take an active part in the war. Former US Army Advisor Mark Woeger is convinced of this. He stated that Putin is likely to put pressure on Belarus, pushing Lukashenko in this direction. Earlier, Focus wrote that Arestovich stated that the Armed Forces were captured by many Russians. According to the advisor to the VP, the Russians in the Kharkiv direction were in the present collapse.