A top Belarusian military leader has quit over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official who posted the decorated general's purported resignation letter online.
Maj. Gen. Viktor Gulevich, the deputy defense minister for the Moscow-aligned nation on Ukraine's northern border, said his soldiers want no part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war and he is unable to mobilize them for the effort. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is close with Putin, but his country has hosted peace talks, which so far have proven fruitless. Ukraine claimed last week that Belarusian forces had crossed its borders to support Russia, but Belarus denied it.
— Geoinvestigate Ltd. March 6, 2022 "In view of the above, I ask for your decision regarding the acceptance of my resignation," he allegedly wrote to his boss, Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin.