Lukashenko to conduct "spot" mobilization of military units. Center for Countering Disinformation comments

Belarus’s self-proclaimed president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, has announced that the country plans to carry out a targeted mobilization of military units in preparation for possible participation in combat operations.

It was reported by the Belarusian news agency BELTA.

At a meeting with Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin, Lukashenko claimed that Belarus is supposedly committed to peace, but that the army exists to be ready for military action should the need arise.

"Next, as I promised, we will selectively mobilize units to prepare them for war. God willing, we will be able to avoid it," he said.

Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin told reporters that the discussion covered not only the combat readiness inspection of the Armed Forces ordered by Lukashenko but also inspections carried out according to the plans of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff. According to him, a thorough analysis was conducted based on the results of these inspections, and certain conclusions were drawn.

Meanwhile, Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, stated that Lukashenko is thus following the “Russian information agenda.”

"Don’t take Lukashenko’s statements about ‘selective mobilization’ seriously. Everything is under control by our forces. The man is working through the Russians’ information agenda to make Putin happy. Nothing more. If there is a threat, Ukraine will see it, and Lukashenko will regret it. I think he knows that," says the head of the Center.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, meanwhile, russian conscripts will not be allowed to leave Belarus if russia, the aggressor state, imposes a corresponding ban. Human rights activists suggest that border guards from both countries have begun exchanging data from the electronic military registration and draft notice registry.