 Lukashenko filed a request to flee the country. At the beginning of Russia's large-scale attack on Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was considering fleeing through Poland because he did not trust the Kremlin. Polish journalist Parofinovich wrote this in his book Poland is at War. Polish officials told the journalist on the condition of anonymity that in the first months of Russia's intervention in Ukraine, Warsaw was seriously worried about Belarus entering a possible war. The Poles were not limited to concern and began to prepare a scenario to send anti-regime sabotage groups in Minsk to sabotage the rear of the Belarusian army. Lukashenko himself was so afraid that he was even allowed to cross the border to Warsaw through various channels and fly from the nearest Polish airport. He started sending requests about whether it would be granted. He knew very well that if the war went according to a bad scenario for them, the Russians would not allow Batia to fly from the Belarusian airspace. Polish journalist added, At present it is known that Belarus has been collaborating with Moscow in the forcible transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied Ukraine in a program directly overseen by the country's President Alexander Lukashenko. According to research from Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, Russia and Belarus are targeting children for removal from Ukraine, coordinating their transport from occupied Ukraine through Russia to Belarus and subjecting children to re-education, sometimes including military training.