A passenger plane in the sky. File photoMOSCOW, Feb 21The Canadian Foreign Ministry urged Canadian citizens to avoid unnecessary travel to Belarus due to the risk of armed conflict with Ukraine.
"Avoid non-essential travel to Belarus due to the risk of arbitrary application of local laws and the risk of armed conflict with Ukraine", says the recommendation posted on the website of the Canadian government.
The Foreign Ministry noted that the capabilities of the Canadian Embassy in Poland are «extremely limited.» Canadian authorities have advised their citizens to consider leaving Belarus. For the area on the border with Ukraine, there is a recommendation to «avoid any travel.» In particular, we are talking about the territory 50 kilometers from the border with Ukraine — in the Gomel and Brest regions. The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs cites «ongoing joint Belarusian-Russian exercises» as the reason for this recommendation, as well as the risk of «armed conflict» with Ukraine.The West is ignoring the escalation in eastern Ukraine, Polyansky saidWestern states have recently expressed concern about Russia's allegedly dangerous actions near the borders of Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly rejected such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone and is not going to attack anyone, and statements about «Russian aggression» are used as a pretext to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. Unsubstantiated allegations that Russia is preparing provocations continue to come from the West, despite the return of Russian troops to their places of deployment after the exercises. On February 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. At a meeting with Putin, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that «some of the exercises are coming to an end, some will be completed in the near future.» The Southern and Western military districts of the Russian Federation have begun returning troops to their places of deployment, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, told reporters the next day. src=»/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/b8ec45a863becdd85e2ab8be900e79d8.jpg» />February 19, 11:15 InfographicHow the situation in Donbas developedInfographicViewPosted by: Nikita Stoma