The president of Belarus on March 1 denied reports that his troops had entered Ukraine. “The Belarusian army has not and will not take any part in the military action,” President Alexander Lukashenko said at a Belarusian Security Council meeting in Minsk. “The question is why? Do they not have the same weapons we do? Please, lord. Do they not have enough human resources? Plenty. Combat skills? Plenty. We are still not going to take part in that special operation. Not going to,” he added. Russian officials have described the invasion of Ukraine as a special military operation. Reports from Ukraine claimed Belarusian troops had entered the Chernihiv region in northeast Ukraine, near Belarus. The Ukraine Parliament cited Vitaly Kirilov, a Ukrainian military commander, while Ukrainian outlet UNIAN cited the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, but neither Kirilov nor the state service had appeared to promulgate such information. …