Shpakovsky told how Belarus will react to strengthening of Poland’s armament

NATO member states are building up forces near the borders of Belarus which won’t go unnoticed from our side – as stated by political analyst Aleksandr Shpakovsky during his talk with Alfa Radio

Aleksandr Shpakovsky stressed that now we can observe the strengthening of NATO’s work in the Eastern European region.

“We see the build-up of NATO forces and means near our borders, the conduct of exercises that clearly have an offensive focus. Every year, on a rotational basis, American units actually study the theatres of hostilities in the borders of Belarus with Lithuania and Poland,” the analyst said.

In this context, the speaker paid special attention to the policy of the Polish authorities towards the Belarusians.

“Poland has repeatedly demonstrated aggressive aspirations towards our people. This has been going on since the Middle Ages, and in the 20th century there was such an experience when part of western Belarus was under the rule of the Poles, our people were discriminated there,” the expert reminded. He also noted the importance of celebrating National Unity Day on September 17th. “It really was a holiday for the illegally, unfairly divided people,” he explained.

“Now we are again seeing sabre-rattling, the desire of a political group [Chairman of the ruling Law and Justice party, former Deputy Prime Minister and head of the National Security Committee of Poland Jaroslaw] Kaczynski to pump up the ‘muscles’ of his army up to 400,000, some insane plans to acquire equipment and weapons. Of course, we will respond to this: both in a mirror-like and asymmetric way,” Aleksandr Shpakovsky assured.

The analyst gave examples, “The deployment of the Iskander complexes, our own missile programme, and the Polonez multiple launch rocket systems, which are already on combat duty of our army – these are not because we really want to arm ourselves in Minsk. It is a reaction to the international reality in which we exist. We now need to ensure the safety of civilians. In no case should we allow our people to be on the verge of survival, as it was 80 years ago,” Shpakovsky concluded.