Ukrainian Officer: It Won’t Be Easy for Lukashenko

Ukraine has warned the dictator.

Last week, Vladimir Putin said that Russia and Belarus are ready to launch a joint project to produce drones. The factory should appear on our country's territory.

Will this enterprise be a legitimate target for the AFU? For a comment, the Charter97.org website turned to military expert, reserve major of the National Guard of Ukraine Alexei Getman:

- Belarus is not an aggressor country as of today, as long as its troops have not crossed the border of Ukraine - it is the Belarusian troops. Lukashenko is bragging that they can do so at any moment (they are in the CSTO - Collective Security Treaty with the Russian Federation - "friends forever"). The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has officially notified Lukashenko that as soon as this happens, any target, military facility or military-industrial facility on the territory of Belarus will become a legitimate target and will be attacked.

Can this joint production facility, even a military one, between Belarus and the Russian Federation be considered a legitimate target? No, it cannot be considered a legitimate target. Therefore, we will not attack it, because we have no right. We are not only trying, but also acting within the framework of international law.

- By publicizing this plant, is Putin deliberately setting up Lukashenko to drag him into the war?

- Very few countries in the world consider Lukashenko a legitimate president. They call him nothing more than the "self-proclaimed president of Belarus." Putin wants to drag him into this war - that's pretty obvious. Lukashenko is trying, as they say, to "run between the drops." He is afraid, he understands perfectly well that the Ukrainian army is currently considered to be the most powerful army in Europe - both in terms of numbers and weapons. Lukashenko sees how we attack military and military-industrial facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation - to a depth of a thousand, two and even three thousand kilometers. How Russian airfields in Saratov, Moscow and St. Petersburg are being closed. And Russia can't do anything about it. I don't think that the air defense system of Belarus is better and more powerful than the Russian one.

Lukashenko understands it perfectly well - the more the distance is closer. Here we can use not drones, but missiles, such as "Palianitsya", "Trembita" and others. We already have enough of them. Putin is pushing him to commit an act of aggression and become an aggressor.

Then we file the relevant documents with the United Nations. The same thing that happened with the Russian Federation will happen. A vote is held, and Belarus is officially recognized as an aggressor country - taking into account the fact that its troops crossed the Ukrainian border. After that, we get carte blanche to use our aviation, missiles, drones to strike military facilities on the territory of Belarus. If Lukashenko gets involved, believe me, he won't be able to get away with it.

- Is it realistic to organize a drone factory without Chinese components? Won't it be just an assembly shop for Chinese drones?

- Yes, it will be just an assembly shop for drones. The drones are assembled from certain components that are shipped there. The factory itself does not produce the components. That is, the final assembly takes place already in the factory. Most likely, it will be a factory for final assembly, and the components will be supplied, probably, from the Russian Federation.

Without Chinese components, of course, they will not be able to assemble drones. Unfortunately, we and the rest of the civilized world cannot completely ban the supply of these components, because they are dual-purpose parts. For example, microchips can be used both in drones and, for example, in washing machines. How can you ban the sale of components for washing machines? It's very difficult to do that. Are there ways to combat this? We should try to limit the supply of such dual-use parts.

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