Vadym Skibitskyi, a representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, stated this in the "At Gunpoint" programme of the military television of Ukraine.

"We see measures taken by the russian federation to force the leadership of belarus to enter into open war. Meetings between putin and Lukashenko are constantly held, where this issue is discussed and putin tries to persuade lukashenko to this decision.

Today, according to Ukraine's military intelligence, six battalions are concentrated near our border. These are mechanized battalions, these are battalions of airborne troops of the so-called command of special operations forces.

lukashenko is ready to give everything he has, let russia use it, but so that the belarusian Armed Forces do not directly enter the war against Ukraine.

How long this situation will last, it will depend on how events will develop at the front and, in general, how events will develop in russia's war against our country," said the representative of Ukraine's military intelligence.