{"id":6397,"date":"2026-06-02T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:49:01","slug":"why-is-ukraine-so-eager-to-start-a-new-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/why-is-ukraine-so-eager-to-start-a-new-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ukraine so eager to start a new war?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Kiev is reviving fears of a northern front despite little evidence of military preparations<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time in a long while, Belarus has again found itself at the center of the Ukraine conflict. For more than a month, Vladimir Zelensky has been warning Ukrainians about a supposed threat from the north. Minsk, he claims, is preparing to enter the war and he\u2019s even threatened Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko with either a pre-emptive strike or a kidnapping in the style of Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n

The rhetoric has now reached the point where Zelensky has ordered preparations for the circular defense of cities in Ukraine\u2019s northern regions, including Kiev itself. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron has called Lukashenko for the first time since 2022, apparently to persuade him not to enter the conflict.<\/p>\n

The problem is that nothing visible is happening on the Belarusian side of the border. There\u2019s no mobilization and no unusual concentration of Belarusian forces and no redeployment of Russian units. The only recent event that could be stretched into a military signal was last week\u2019s Russian-Belarusian nuclear exercise. But even that took place in the Osipovichi district, in the center of Belarus, and was more about strategic deterrence than any ground operation against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The more obvious question is why Lukashenko would want to join the military operation at all. Such a move would be wholly out of character for him and would run against the geopolitical role he has tried to carve out for Belarus.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko has always sought to preserve room for maneuver and he kept doing so after 2020, when he became de facto persona non grata in the West, and even after the conflict escalated in 2022. In the Ukrainian crisis, Belarus has remained largely a passive observer and that arrangement has suited Moscow. For Russia, he\u2019s a valuable diplomatic asset, not a military one.<\/p>\n

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The last exit from the Ukraine conflict may already be closing<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, a repeat of the February 2022 thrust towards Kiev may sound tempting in theory. But with all due respect to Belarus, its army is not suited to the role of battering ram, especially in conditions of modern warfare dominated by drones and constant surveillance.<\/p>\n

Could the reverse be true? Perhaps Zelensky is preparing to strike Belarus first, overthrow Lukashenko and open a second front against Russia. His pointed invitation to the fugitive opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya gives this theory a certain surface logic, but the military reality makes it deeply implausible.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Armed Forces\u2019 last major offensive operation was the incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk Region. To mount it, Kiev gathered around 30,000 troops, weakening its positions in Donbass and losing large areas there as a result. Even then, the operation failed to produce a decisive strategic outcome. A serious attack on Belarus would require far more resources. Since then, Ukraine\u2019s army has weakened further and its present ceiling is local counter-attacks in Donbass, so it\u2019s in no position to open a major new front.<\/p>\n

Nor would it make strategic sense. Any escalation with Belarus would risk creating another 1,000-kilometer front stretching across Ukraine\u2019s northern flank, with direct threats to Kiev. However odious the Kiev regime may be, it can\u2019t fail to understand this.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine is causing more regime change in the EU than in Russia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s why the current escalation around the \u2018Belarusian question\u2019<\/em>\u00a0should be understood politically, not militarily.<\/p>\n

The timing is telling. Zelensky began to raise the alarm just as relations between Minsk and Washington showed signs of thawing. In March, the US eased sanctions on Belarus and Washington spoke of reopening its embassy. There was even talk of a possible Lukashenko visit to America and a meeting with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

For Kiev, this is dangerous because Zelensky may fear that the eloquent Belarusian leader could charm Trump and persuade him to increase pressure on Ukraine to bring the conflict to an end. Lukashenko might also secure further sanctions relief, potentially turning Belarus into a hub for the transit of American goods to Russia.<\/p>\n

From Kiev\u2019s point of view, that scenario must be prevented. Hence the effort to present Minsk as an imminent threat, because if Belarus can be cast once again as Russia\u2019s military accomplice rather than as a possible diplomatic channel, any US-Belarusian rapprochement becomes far harder to sustain.<\/p>\n

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Zelensky\u2019s fascism fetish is booming, and the West is still (mostly) okay with it<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Domestic politics may also be driving Zelensky\u2019s rhetoric. Since late April, the noose of a corruption scandal has been tightening around his circle and the latest revelations from the \u2018Mindich tapes\u2019<\/em>\u00a0have led to formal charges against Zelensky\u2019s closest aide, Andrey Yermak. For the first time, the name \u2018Vova\u2019<\/em>\u00a0has appeared in case materials, alongside the mysterious \u2018R1<\/em>\u2019,<\/em>\u00a0the anonymous owner of one of the mansions in the \u2018Dynasty\u2019<\/em>\u00a0housing cooperative, where, by a happy coincidence, Zelensky\u2019s closest friends had planned to live.<\/p>\n

In such conditions, inflating a new military threat is politically useful as it allows Zelensky to tell Ukrainians that the gravest crisis is still ahead, and that he remains the horse that cannot be changed midstream.<\/p>\n

But the old \u2018Russian card\u2019<\/em>\u00a0is wearing thin in the fifth year of hostilities. Ukrainians are tired, mobilized society is fraying, and endless emergency politics no longer works as it once did. So now Kiev is reaching for the \u2018Belarus card\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

Will it work? Probably not. At most, it may buy Zelensky a little time, a little fear, and a little more room to maneuver, but as a strategy, it\u2019s thin gruel. Or to put it more appropriately, it is worthy only of a carrot, and a dry one at that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This article was first published by the online newspaper\u00a0Gazeta.ru<\/a>\u00a0and was translated and edited by the RT team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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