If Belarus declares martial law, it can mobilize 1.5 million people – Belarusian Defense Council 

BelTA writes about it.

"If we consider the number of the military organizations of the state... there will be up to 1.5 million people mobilized in the event of the declaration of martial law and militarizing economy. We have 9 million people, so the remaining 8 million, of course, will work in industry, education, healthcare, agriculture," he said.

Aleksander Volfovich spoke favorably of the adoption of a new law  "On People's Militia" in Belarus.

SBU Major General Viktor Yahun suggested that the current President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, could be replaced by the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, Aleksander Volfovich.

• Belarusian political scientist and political emigrant Pavel Usov said that the subject of the meeting between the leaders of Russia and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, which began on September 25, 2022 in Sochi, was the Kremlin's demand for the Belarusian regime to join the mobilization in the war against Ukraine: otherwise, General Volfovich would take Lukashenko’s place.