Lukashenko's Belarus is not the only perpetrator in war against Ukraine. Occupied Russian parts of Syria(Putin used Syria as a war polygon prior to assault on Ukraine) became a hotbed for terrorist Russian activities against Ukraine in Ukraine as well in very same fashion as occupied parts of Ukraine(Donetsk and Crimea) from where Ukrainians are sent in Russian military uniforms to fight on Russian front lines against own country Ukraine.
Word is about real neonazi(genocidal fascist) tactics, however, those are applied against Ukraine by a hateful lunatic and his Kremlin supporters who pointed at Ukraine after occupying enormous parts of one since 2014 on how Ukraine is the one engaging in ethnic cleansing against other nationalities...
From https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-war-russia-recruiting-syrians-to-fight-in-ukraine-us-daily-2807566 and many other source
Moscow has in recent days recruited fighters from Syria hoping they can help take Kyiv, four US officials told the US daily.
Russia is recruiting Syrian fighters experienced in urban combat as it ramps up its assault on Ukraine, according to US officials quoted by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
Moscow, which launched an invasion into its Eastern European neighbour on February 24, has in recent days recruited fighters from Syria hoping they can help take Kyiv, four US officials told the US daily.
Russia entered the Syrian civil war in 2015 on the side of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The country has been mired in a conflict marked by urban combat for more than a decade.
One official told the Journal that some fighters are already in Russia readying to join the fight in Ukraine, though it was not immediately clear how many combatants have been recruited, and the sources would not provide further detail.
Foreign fighters have already entered the Ukrainian conflict on both sides.
Chechnya strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov -- a former rebel-turned-Kremlin-ally -- has shared videos of Chechen fighters joining the attack on Ukraine and said some had been killed in the fighting.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has claimed around 20,000 foreign volunteers have traveled to the country to join Kyiv's forces.
The capital and the second-largest city Kharkiv are still held by Ukraine's government, while Russia has seized the port city of Kherson and stepped up its shelling of urban centers across the country.
3 reasons Belarus is helping Russia wage war against Ukraine - Russian troops have assoulted Ukraine ALSO through the Belarusian border in the north.
Lukashenko announced in September 2021 that Russia would send military equipment, including helicopters and air defense systems, to the Belarusian-Ukraine border.
Two months later, Lukashenko broke his neutrality on Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that Russia occupied via invasion in 2014. The Belarusian leader publicly recognized that Crimea was Russian territory. Lukashenko also offered to host Russian nuclear weapons if NATO moves nuclear weapons from Germany to Eastern Europe, as had been reported.
Lukashenko repeated his plan to station Russian warheads on Belarusian soil on Feb. 27, 2022, speaking at a polling station on the day of the referendum.
Russia’s ability to place nuclear weapons in Belarus has raised alarm for neighboring NATO countries, chiefly Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as the U.S. and other Western powers.
By hosting Russian troops and weapons, Lukashenko has shown that he is closely aligned with Putin — despite the popular will of the Belarusian people to maintain distance.
Ukraine claims Belarus troops have crossed border after Lukashenko denied plans to join Putin’s war
Ukrainian parliament says Belarus forces have entered northern Chernihiv region as Russia’s war intensifies
Belarus troops have entered the Chernihiv region in northern Ukraine, joining the Russian invasion, according to Ukrainian authorities.
A tweet from the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday morning followed earlier local media reports that Belarusian troops had arrived in the north of the country as the conflict entered its sixth day.
The official Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Twitter account posted: “Belarusian troops entered Chernihiv region.
“The information was confirmed to the Public by Vitaliy Kyrylov, spokesman for the North Territorial Defense Forces. More details later.”
According to local media reports, a Belarusian column of 33 units entered Chernihiv, with mobile communications cut.
Belarus - a servant of Moscow under strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko - has already been used as launch pad by Russian troops, who gathered there on the pretext of joint military exercises before last Thursday’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Shortly after the Ukrainian parliament tweeted, Mr Lukashenko said his country was deploying more forces to its border with Ukraine to “stop any provocation against Belarus”.
“Those are well trained rapid deployment groups which are ready to stop any provocation and any military action against Belarus,” state news agency Belta quoted the president as saying.
Satellite images taken on Monday by US imaging firm Maxar Technologies showed a significant Russian military convoy north of Kyiv, and additional ground forces deployments and ground attack helicopter units in southern Belarus, less than 20 miles north of the Ukraine border.
A referendum in Belarus on Sunday approved a new constitution ditching its non-nuclear status, paving the way for a possible deployment of Russian nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil for the first time since the country gave them up after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Speaking at a polling station on Sunday, Mr Lukashenko said he could ask Russia to return nuclear weapons to Belarus.
"If you (the West) transfer nuclear weapons to Poland or Lithuania, to our borders, then I will turn to Putin to return the nuclear weapons that I gave away without any conditions," the Belarusian president said.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that had spoken with Mr Lukashenko, and later appealed to Belarus to stay out of the conflict.
“We are your neighbors. We, Ukrainians. Be Belarus, not Russia! You are making this choice right now,” Mr Zelensky said in a recorded message.
The European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, last week said Mr Lukashenko was allowing his nation to become a Russian satellite state, while a US official on Sunday said that “Minsk is now an extension of the Kremlin”.
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