The Belarusian government has begun stockpiling weapons and securing at least 5,000 places of shelter in case of missile attacks.
Belarus was a strategical geographical area when Russia began mounting troops along its Ukraine border earlier this year in January and February. While assembling troops, Russia held joint military drills with Belarus, its cozy neighbor that's situated on the northwest border of Ukraine.
Belarus's Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vadym Sinyavskyi told ONT TV channel that weapons have been distributed throughout the country so it can"protect the motherland." Sinyavskyi added that Belarus has secured more than 5,000 different closed structures within the country should they endure missile strikes.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko attends a joint exercises of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus as part of an inspection of the Union State's Response Force, at a firing range near a town of Osipovichi outside Minsk on February 17, 2022. Belarus is now stockpiling for war on its homeland.Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been a longtime ally of Russian President.
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