The shelves are shameful

The union grouping of troops of Russia and Belarus is unfolding in an atmosphere of total lies: the parties can not even decide who and why it is needed

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko met seven times this year. They never had such intensive communication before. Citizens of both countries said: yes they are just outcasts all over the world, they have no one to communicate with, except with each other, they meet either in Sochi or in St. Petersburg. Political scientists said: Lukashenko asks for money, and Putin for this requires a full -scale participation in the war. Both that, and the other, most likely, is true, and one does not exclude the other.

From the war itself, Alexander Lukashenko had reopened for many months. He said that gunpowder should be kept dry in case of sudden aggression from the west or from the south (the east is friendly by default) and that the horns were cut off and not the same as Poland (Poland for him is a speculative embodiment of a probable enemy). He claimed that Belarus simply provides a bed in hospitals for the treatment of Russian wounded: “Zelensky, however, reproached me for this:“ You accept the wounded! ” I say: “I accepted and I will accept. We treat them, save them. ” The Minister of Health every morning reports to me about what is happening there. We treated and will treat these guys-in Gomel, Mozyr and, in my opinion, some kind of district center when they come to us. What is wrong here? Always saved the wounded in any war. God forbid, the dead - sent to their homeland. "

It was so spring and summer. By autumn, rhetoric began to change. On October 4, at a meeting on military security issues, Lukashenko said : “As for our participation in a special military operation in Ukraine, we participate there. We do not hide it. But we do not kill anyone. We do not send our military anywhere. We do not violate our obligations. Our participation in the prevention of the spread of this conflict to the territory of Belarus, firstly. Secondly, to prevent the strike on Belarus under the cover of a special military operation by Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. As I said, no one will shoot in the back of the Russians from the territory of Belarus. Here is our participation. ” On October 9, on the air of the Main Air program of state television, this was duplicated by the First Deputy Secretary of State of the Council of People's Commissars Pavel Muravo: “Firstly, we do not allow our Russian brothers to strike in the back. Secondly, we provide stability on the western boundaries. Our air defense group ensures the safety of air borders. We are an ally of the Russian Federation. Along with our Russian brothers, we stand shoulder to shoulder and do not allow blows in their backs, we will not allow an attack on them. ”

We participate, but not quite. We are fighting, but do not kill. We stand shoulder to shoulder with Russian brothers, but we have a world. In this oxyumorone space, Lukashenko and the military spoke to this day.

Today, Alexander Lukashenko again expanded the boundaries of Belarus in the war, holding the second meeting with representatives of the power block in a week. He said that on the eve of him on unofficial channels, he was warned of the preparatory strikes from the territory of Ukraine in Belarus and that it would be the “Crimean Most-2”. That the US and the European Union intend to create a second front from the "runaway". That to Ukraine the West supplies the ancient equipment to be disposed of, and itself saturates its troops with the most modern weapons in order to transfer them to the border of Belarus. That Poland is “just trembling” and asks the United States to immediately bring nuclear weapons there. That the West is trying to drag Belarus into the war and then “deal” with Russia and actually with Belarus. And that the joint grouping of the troops will possibly consist of the most part from the Belarusian military: “You know that they have enough problems. Therefore, you do not count on a large number of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. But this will be more than one thousand people. ”

At that meeting, Lukashenko said that he and Vladimir Putin agreed on the deployment of a joint regional group of troops on October 7, during the meeting one on one after an informal summit of the heads of the CIS state in St. Petersburg, that is, before the explosion of the Kerch bridge and today's mass shelling of Ukraine. And that for two days it has been forming its formation. Actually, he called the meeting not emergency, but planned from the last time: "As we agreed." This is in Lukashenko’s style: to give fresh dishes for the day before yesterday and say that there can be nothing emergency in peaceful Belarus, everything goes on its own and is carefully planned for a long time.

The joint regional grouping of troops (RVG) is provided for by the military doctrine of the Union State. These are the troops of both countries, "the application of which is planned for a single meaning and plan." According to the doctrine, they can deploy both in peace and wartime, separately or with the military formations of both armies that are not included in the RVG. The purpose of the RVG is “in repelling the attack, defeating the aggressor and creating prerequisites for the cessation of hostilities on the terms that meet the interests of the participating states.” With the wording, everything is clear, the question is not in them, but in the procedure. According to the military doctrine of the Union State, the decision to deploy a regional group of troops is made by the highest state council of the Union State. And this is not Lukashenko with Putin, this, in addition to them, the heads of government of both countries and the chairmen of two chambers of parliaments, that is, eight people. The State Council was not gathered and has not conferred recently, so the decision to deploy a joint group of troops is illegitimate even from the point of view of the military doctrine of the two states. So when Lukashenko says : “My order was given so that we would begin to form this group,” he violates the signed doctrine with him.

However, they say all, a lot and out of business, chorus and solo, not paying attention to each other. The head of the State Duma defense committee Andrei Kartapolov on October 10, in an interview with RIA Novosti, said that the deployment of the RGV was aimed at “removing the concern of Alexander Grigoryevich and our Belarusian brothers”, supposedly Lukashenko asked the ally. And not in connection with the war in Ukraine, but because of the threats of NATO. Alexander Lukashenko himself says not only about the threat of a nuclear strike from Poland, but also about the attack of Ukraine on Belarus: “Bring the President of Ukraine and other insane that the Crimean bridge will seem to them with flowers if they touch with their dirty hands to one meter of our territory.” This is a quote from today's meeting.

In recent months, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky Lukashenko called not only the insane, but also the “headless” in an interview with Vladimir Soloviev, the madman and the “little Napoleonchik” during the voting at the referendum on February 27. Then, after voting, he advised Zelensky to "close and be silent." But to himself, he said at today's meeting: "We, the military, must take all measures so that there is no war." Lukashenko calls himself either a military or a historian, then a teacher. So there is nothing surprising in the atomic bomb that is rushing to him, flying from Warsaw to Minsk. He lives in his own world.

But in our real world, it still remains unclear when exactly and who decided to deploy a joint military group. Lukashenko says that he made a decision, Kartopolov claims that Moscow, at his request for the sake of the calm of Belarusians, and according to the documents, this decision should generally make a union state council. One thing is clear so far: both Belarusian and Russian officials lie. However, they are familiar.