Ambassador: Russia will not turn blind eye to NATO military buildup near Belarusian borders

Russia will not turn a blind eye to the NATO buildup near the borders of Belarus, Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov said in an interview with the Russian news agency TASS.

“We are closely watching what is happening, including the actions of certain EU’s neighboring states that are members of NATO. The borders of the Republic of Belarus are the western borders of the Union State. Therefore, of course, we are interested in normalizing the situation,” the ambassador said.

***

“We see that the buildup of NATO personnel and military equipment literally at our doorstep continues without cease. During the above-mentioned migrant crisis, Poland deployed additional forces, including hardware near the Belarusian border. Of course, we will not turn a blind to these developments,” he said.

Ambassador Boris Gryzlov noted that new joint drills will begin in the Republic of Belarus in February 2022 and will be called “Allied Resolve 2022”. “Of course, when we announce our plans to conduct any exercise, the Western propaganda machine goes into overdrive, delivering all sorts of fake news about various pseudo-threats. This has happened many times. The authors of these fake news have never had it right: the Russian and Belarusian military would conduct an exercise and then return to their permanent deployment locations.”