Belarus, epicenter of the war: thousands of Wagner mercenaries, Putin's nuclear weapons and suspected false flag attack

INTERNATIONAL / By Luis Moreno

The invasion of Ukraine is moving. Belarus has become the epicenter of the war and a sort of base camp for thousands of mercenaries from the Wagner Group, deployed on the country's border after their alleged attempted rebellion against the Kremlin.. Also in a warehouse where Vladimir Putin has deployed tactical nuclear weapons, which he assured in June that they will only be used in the event of a “threat to the integrity, independence, sovereignty and existence of the Russian State.” An explosive cocktail that has put Europe on high alert and, specifically, the countries closest to Aleksandr Lukashenko's autocracy, such as Poland.

This same Friday, the Russian authorities warned that Poland “is prone to provoke” and accused Warsaw of “increasing tension” regarding the situation on the border with Belarus, where tensions have escalated after the arrival of the mercenaries. from Prigozhin.

But the thing does not stop there. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) also assured this Friday that Russia is planning a false flag attack against an oil refinery located in the Belarusian city of Mozyr.. According to the Ukrainians, Putin would try to involve Minsk in a war that has been going on for more than a year and a half. The operation would thus take place when Volodímir Zelenski is about to make public a new proposal for peace. But what is a false flag attack?

This warlike operation essentially consists of carrying out a political or military action with the intention of blaming an opponent for it. The name derives from the military concept of hoisting false colours, that is, the flag of a country other than one's own. In this case, the SBU asserts that Russia would have sent soldiers from its special forces to Belarus, posing as mercenaries from the Wagner Group to carry out this act of sabotage for which Kiev would be held responsible.. According to this, he would have received orders to move to Belarus under a false identity as a Wagner mercenary.

The false flag attack has been used in various wars in history, one of the best known being the attack perpetrated by Nazi Germany in the then German city of Gleiwitz (today part of Poland) at the start of World War II.. A group of Nazi agents posed as Poles to sabotage the radio signal. The objective was to use a pretext to invade Poland.

Thus, the SBU has urged Lukashenko's Army and the rest of its authorities to refrain from participating in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has warned that anyone who crosses the border with hostile intentions “will be destroyed.”

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