On Monday, Poland advised its citizens not to travel to Belarus, and advised those already in the neighboring country to leave it, Reuters reports.

The announcement came as Belarusian dictator Oleksandr Lukashenko said Monday during a meeting with his generals that Poland could send troops to the border between the two countries, citing it as a pretext for deploying joint military forces with Russia. .

“They moved their forces 100 kilometers from the border, saturating them with NATO weapons. All were sent [armele] Soviet and Polish that Ukraine had. They got rid of them,” the Belarusian leader claims.

He then rhetorically asked his generals how long it would be before Poland sent its troops back to the border with Belarus, now that they had been rearmed with modern NATO weapons. “Midnight,” he answers his question.

Watch the moment here.

“Poland is simply trembling, demanding that the Americans immediately bring and place nuclear weapons in Poland, including Germany’s nuclear arsenal,” the Minsk dictator said on Monday.

Ukraine scoffed at Lukashenko’s announcement of joint military forces with Russia, with presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak saying Monday afternoon that “Lukashenko continues to sell his sovereignty to the Russian Federation. The placement of the Russian contingent in Belarus under fabricated pretexts is a formalization of the occupation.”

He also noted that there are no signs of a new Russian attack on northern Ukraine from the territory of Belarus, as happened in the first days of the war launched by Vladimir Putin at the end of February.

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