Russia, a close ally of Belarus, has worried the West and Kiev with a troop build-up near Ukraine's borders and a barrage of threatening rhetoric, stirring fears that it plans to invade.
"We were planning to start exercises in February. Set an exact date and let us know, so we aren't blamed for massing some troops here out of the blue, as if we are preparing to go to war," Mr Lukashenko told his defence minister. The former Soviet republic of 9.5 million, which Moscow sees as a buffer state to the West, borders Ukraine to its south and NATO members Poland and Lithuania to its west.
The Kremlin said separately that reports that Estonia was prepared to host up to 5,000 NATO troops showed Moscow was right to be worried.
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