Presidents of Belarus and Russia Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin agreed to deploy a joint regional group of troops. Lukashenka stated this at a meeting on security issues, Belta reports .
“In connection with the aggravation on the western borders of the Union State, we agreed to deploy a regional grouping of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. It's all according to our documents. If the threat level reaches the current level, as it is now, we begin to use the Union State grouping,” Lukashenka said.
He also claims that, according to his sources, Ukraine is preparing to strike at Belarus: “Yesterday, through unofficial channels, we were warned about a strike against Belarus from the territory of Ukraine. As it was stated: “We will make it so that it will be the Crimean Bridge-2”. My answer was simple: “Tell the president of Ukraine and other insane people that the Crimean bridge will seem like flowers to them if they touch at least one meter of our territory with their dirty hands.”
On the morning of October 10, 75 missiles were fired at Ukraine, 41 of them were shot down. This was announced by the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny. The attack continues, by 10 am Kyiv time, Krivoy Rog is under fire.
They fired at Kyiv, including the center, Lvov, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Khmelnitsk, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv, Sumy, Rivne, Ternopil, Poltava, Kirovohrad region. In Lviv, a thermal power plant was damaged, the city is de-energized, there is no hot water, backup power generators are running.
The Minister of Culture of Kyiv Oleksandr Tkachenko said that the building of the Philharmonic Society, the museum of Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko, and the Shevchenko museum were damaged as a result of the shelling of the city. Rockets hit the Kyiv National University. Taras Shevchenko and in the park of the same name opposite.