{"id":607411,"date":"2026-05-25T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=607411"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:35:00","slug":"in-rare-phone-call-macron-warns-belarus-lukashenko-against-directly-joining-ukraine-war-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=607411","title":{"rendered":"In Rare Phone Call, Macron Warns Belarus’ Lukashenko Against Directly Joining Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Rare Phone Call, Macron Warns Belarus’ Lukashenko Against Directly Joining Ukraine War<\/span><\/p>\n

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In their first direct contact since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron telephoned Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to warn him against increasing his country’s engagement in the war,<\/strong> according to sources who spoke to AFP<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“[Macron] highlighted the risks Belarus will face if dragged into the war <\/strong>in Ukraine. He also called on Lukashenko to take necessary measures to improve relations between Belarus and Europe,” a source told AFP<\/em><\/a>. Lukashenko let Russia use Belarus as a staging area for the 2022 invasion, and has continued to let Russia launch missile and drone strikes from Belarus over the more than three years of war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Belarus let Russia use its territory as a staging ground for the 2022 invasion of Ukraine<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia might be preparing to open a new front<\/strong> in the war, striking northern Ukraine and Kiev with heightened involvement of the Belarusian military. Zelensky’s warning came after Belarus announced its participation in three days of\u00a0massive nuclear drills<\/a>\u00a0with Russia. Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said the exercise involved 64,000 troops, over 200 missile launchers, more than 140 aircraft, 73 surface warships and 13 submarines<\/strong>, including eight armed with nuclear-tipped ICBMs. The drills focused on the \u201cpreparation and use of nuclear forces under the threat of aggression,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s Border Guard Service, however, said they haven’t observed signs of Russian or Belarusian troops massing<\/strong> on the frontier — yet. “If we talk about the line of our border, then, fortunately, as of this moment, we do not record any movement of equipment, weapons, or personnel in the immediate vicinity of our border or such accumulation,” said a spokesman. He did claim that intelligence shows Putin has been increasing pressure on Lukashenko to join the war<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amid the mounting tension, Lukashenko last week offered his availability for a meeting with Zelensky<\/strong>.\u00a0“If (Zelensky) wants to discuss something, seek advice, or anything else, please do. We are open to it,”\u00a0Lukashenka\u00a0said.\u00a0“I am ready to meet with him anywhere – in Ukraine, in Belarus<\/a> – and discuss the problems of Belarusian-Ukrainian relations.” Lukashenko also dismissed the idea that Belarus would directly join Russia’s war, saying that wouldn’t happen unless “aggression is committed against (Belarusian) territory.”<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa FIRST TIME RECORDED: Up-close sounds of Russian Oreshnik IRBM warheads falling down \u2026 eerie pic.twitter.com\/ZfEblDeqy1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Russia’s Belarus-based arsenal includes the Oreshnik — Russia’s nuclear-capable, hypersonic, intermediate range ballistic missile <\/strong>(IRBM). Over Saturday night, Russia made rare use of the cutting-edge Oreshnik missiles in a spectacular\u00a0assault on Kiev and nearby territory. The attack made good on Putin’s vow to\u00a0avenge<\/a>\u00a0a Ukrainian strike that hit a secondary-school dormitory in the Russian-controlled Luhansk oblast, killing at least 18 people. Belarus announced the deployment of Oreshniks<\/a> on its territory in late December.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Macron initiated Sunday’s call.\u00a0Their last<\/a> phone conversation came on Feb 26, 2022<\/strong>, just two days after the Russian army launched its so-called “special military operation” aimed at cleaving Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region from the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
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In Rare Phone Call, Macron Warns Belarus’ Lukashenko Against Directly Joining Ukraine War In their first direct contact since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron telephoned Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to warn him against increasing his country’s engagement in the war, according to sources who spoke to AFP.\u00a0\u00a0 “[Macron] highlighted the risks… Continue reading In Rare Phone Call, Macron Warns Belarus’ Lukashenko Against Directly Joining Ukraine War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/607392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}