Putin ally Lukashenko threatens NATO with blatant words. “If you violate the state border, you will be destroyed.
No one should rely on the value of etiquette or formality” “We must not let up. We are sure they will attack us if we do that,” he said. Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said in February that the Belarusian military would shoot down any aircraft that entered its airspace. The Polish Foreign Ministry told Newsweek that Minsk was "one of the main destabilizing factors for the security in the region"