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Mar 11 4 tweets 2 min read
Deliberate provocation and escalation: Russian attack aircraft took off from an airfield in temporarily occupied Ukraine, bombed Ukrainian targets, then carried out airstrikes on Belarus territory.

via the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
armyinform.com.ua/2022/03/11/vor…
The dictator Putin desperately needs the Belarus army to join his war to annihilate Ukraine, expecting that to happen a week ago. But orders from Putin to Lukashenka to unit commanders to Belarusian soldiers were not followed – hence this "Mainila Incident" false flag operation.
Belarusian soldiers have even worse morale than Russian soldiers. They don't want to kill Ukrainians.

If they go into battle in Ukraine (probably in the west, near Poland) they will do badly. If they stay in their barracks it will be another blow to Putin's war effort.
Russian SU-25 attack aircraft flew from Belarus, not from territory of temporarily occupied Ukraine as I first stated.

Putin wants to open up another front, so the "Mainila Incident" provocation took place to the west – 215km from Poland. Russia attacked near Bukhlichi, Belarus.

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