Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the Munich Security Conference that intelligence services expect Russia to send troops to NATO's eastern flank.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned European allies of possible future Russian attacks. Referring to allegations that Russia is deliberately smuggling migrants into the EU through Belarus, Zelensky told the Munich Security Conference (MSC): “What if next time it’s not migrants – what if it’s Russian soldiers or North Korean soldiers?” Belarus borders three NATO members, Zelensky said. “How quickly will their allies react – and will they react at all?”
EU member states that are neighbors of Russia and its ally Belarus accuse them of deliberately sending migrants to the borders of Northern and Eastern Europe as part of "hybrid" attacks to force them to cross EU borders.
Zelensky: Russia is following a similar tactic as in Ukraine
The Ukrainian president has now said he has intelligence reports that Moscow wants to move troops to Belarus this summer. Their deployment will be billed as military exercises – similar to how Russia's invasion of Ukraine was prepared three years ago. However, Zelensky did not provide any other evidence.
Against the backdrop of the change of power in the US, Zelensky said that the old relationship between Europe and the US is “coming to an end”. Given the uncertainty about future support from Washington, Europe must “unite and act in a way that no one can say no to Europe, command it or treat it as weak”./DW