January 6, 2023

Before Putler's invasion of Ukraine the rival border guards were relatively friendly. Not anymore. Here, a Belorussian border guard says on TV that they are offended by “the offensive threatening gestures” from Ukrainian border guards.

Source: Portfolio (Hungary)

Recently, a recording made by the country's border guards, also broadcast by the Belarusian state media, appeared on Twitter, and it shows a Ukrainian border guard sending an unmistakable signal to his colleagues stationed on the other side of the border after a friendly wave.

According to the Belarusian border guards, Ukrainian soldiers behave in a hostile manner towards them on a regular basis, and the gesture shown in the video is not a unique case.

Minsk allowed the important ally Russia to station troops on its territory, and when the war broke out in February, attacks were launched from the country's territory, primarily in the direction of Kiev.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has stated numerous times that his country does not wish to enter the conflict, but at the same time, it is a fact that Belarus supports Moscow with weapons, and that serious troop movements have been detected in the Eastern European state on several oc

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