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Russia-Ukraine war – live: Putin’s troops enter Belarus amid nuclear escalation warning
Former Nato commander urges West to prepare for ‘worst case’ scenario of war
Arpan Rai,Liam James,Maryam Zakir-Hussain,Lamiat Sabin
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Russian troops are “entering Belarus by the trainload”, according to reports, after Moscow ally Alexander Lukashenko ordered his forces on a joint deployment to Ukraine’s northern border in what Minsk called a defensive measure.
Jason Jay Smart, reporter for the Kyiv Post, said a Belarusian source told him hours after Mr Lukashenko’s statement that “Russian soldiers are entering Belarus by the trainload. They’re traveling in cattle cars – just a huge quantity.”
Meanwhile, a former Nato commander urged the alliance to prepare for the war in Ukraine to spread further into Europe as well as nuclear escalation.
Richard Shirreff, Nato’s former deputy supreme allied commander Europe, said: “The chilling factor here is the nuclear one and some form of nuclear escalation,” he said in an appearance at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
“What we have not seen is Nato recognising that it has got to be prepared for the worst case and the worst case is war with Russia,” he said.
she said.