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Lukashenko: We will develop the contract army more actively

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KAMENETS DISTRICT, 1 August (BelTA) – More efforts will be poured into creating a contract army in Belarus. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement as he met with residents of the agrotown of Belovezhsky in Kamenets District, Brest Oblast, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked that some units of the private military company (PMC) Wagner had joined the Russian regular army, some are working in Africa, and some are staying in Belarus. The president said: “It was my initiative and I don’t regret it. I want to leave these guys in the armed forces of our country. And relying on them, I’d like to more actively create a contract army. Our active service draftees serve for 1.5 years and leave. I was one of them. Green kids 18 years old. But over there we have experienced people. They are mainly officers. It is their profession to fight or defend the country. They say it is even cheaper. This is why we are looking attentively at this experience in order to protect us in the future. It is our only goal.”

The president went on saying: “This is why don’t worry. We don’t want a war and I think that everything will be normal. If the enemy sees that we will respond in kind and they will incur irreparable losses, losses that will not be acceptable for them, they will never attack us. This is why here is your key task: everyone has a job to do (someone is an accountant, someone is an economist, an executive, a machine operator, a milking machine operator). Everyone should do their job in their own positions.”

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