Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has strongly defended Russian actions in Ukraine on Tuesday, saying that if Russia “delayed its military operation for a while, Russian territory would have been overwhelmed by an attack on its borders.”
“If someone wants to scream that we went somewhere we should not, we started something we should not, just imagine what would have happened if you were at least two weeks or a month late,” Lukashenko told reporters during a joint news conference with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after the meeting of the two leaders in the Amur region of the Far East of Russia.
Some context: There is no evidence that Ukraine was going to attack Russia. Since last year, Russia has stepped up its military control over Ukraine, bringing together tens of thousands of troops, as well as equipment and artillery, on the country’s doorstep. Russian forces held joint exercises with their Belarusian allies before the invasion.
The Belarusian leader went on to accuse “Washington, Brussels and London” of provoking the crisis in Ukraine and said that the economic sanctions against Russia were “psychological operations” organized by the United Kingdom. He also accused the United States of inciting Poland and the Baltic states against Moscow.
“Our recent history has not seen as dangerous a moment in our relationship with the West as it is today … Some of you have said that the Cold War is over and we will live in a new civilized age based on mutual understanding and the supremacy of international law. “We believed it, but the West did not; it did not destroy us then, so they decided to start now.”
Mr Lukashenko also referred to Putin’s baseless allegations of “de-escalation” as part of his justification for invading Ukraine.
“There was a public figure in the West in the 1930s and 1940s who also tried to establish a new order of things and we know very well how it ended. So I think Washington needs to go back to the recent past. The fathers “Our ancestors endured then and they were winners and so we will be winners as we were in our common history of 1,000 years,” he said.
Putin said Belarus was “being hit no less than Russia at the moment.”
“We have never had any doubt that if anyone offered us his shoulder it would be Belarus,” he said.
As for the effect of sanctions on the destabilization of Russian-Belarusian ties, Putin said they were “completely futile.”
“This trick is definitely not going to work for us. We will only get stronger,” he said, adding that “the (damage) that our enemies were counting on has not happened.”
The measures agreed by the two leaders include projects for a common electricity market, favorable prices for oil and gas for Belarus’ domestic consumption – with payments in rubles, the joint construction of a nuclear power plant to be put into operation. by the end of 2021 and increase security at the western border, including joint military exercises.
title: “Putin Says Talks With Ukraine Are At A Dead End " ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-28” author: “James Lopez”
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has strongly defended Russian actions in Ukraine on Tuesday, saying that if Russia “delayed its military operation for a while, Russian territory would have been overwhelmed by an attack on its borders.”
“If someone wants to scream that we went somewhere we should not, we started something we should not, just imagine what would have happened if you were at least two weeks or a month late,” Lukashenko told reporters during a joint news conference with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after the meeting of the two leaders in the Amur region of the Far East of Russia.
Some context: There is no evidence that Ukraine was going to attack Russia. Since last year, Russia has stepped up its military control over Ukraine, bringing together tens of thousands of troops, as well as equipment and artillery, on the country’s doorstep. Russian forces held joint exercises with their Belarusian allies before the invasion.
The Belarusian leader went on to accuse “Washington, Brussels and London” of provoking the crisis in Ukraine and said that the economic sanctions against Russia were “psychological operations” organized by the United Kingdom. He also accused the United States of inciting Poland and the Baltic states against Moscow.
“Our recent history has not seen as dangerous a moment in our relationship with the West as it is today … Some of you have said that the Cold War is over and we will live in a new civilized age based on mutual understanding and the supremacy of international law. “We believed it, but the West did not; it did not destroy us then, so they decided to start now.”
Mr Lukashenko also referred to Putin’s baseless allegations of “de-escalation” as part of his justification for invading Ukraine.
“There was a public figure in the West in the 1930s and 1940s who also tried to establish a new order of things and we know very well how it ended. So I think Washington needs to go back to the recent past. The fathers “Our ancestors endured then and they were winners and so we will be winners as we were in our common history of 1,000 years,” he said.
Putin said Belarus was “being hit no less than Russia at the moment.”
“We have never had any doubt that if anyone offered us his shoulder it would be Belarus,” he said.
As for the effect of sanctions on the destabilization of Russian-Belarusian ties, Putin said they were “completely futile.”
“This trick is definitely not going to work for us. We will only get stronger,” he said, adding that “the (damage) that our enemies were counting on has not happened.”
The measures agreed by the two leaders include projects for a common electricity market, favorable prices for oil and gas for Belarus’ domestic consumption – with payments in rubles, the joint construction of a nuclear power plant to be put into operation. by the end of 2021 and increase security at the western border, including joint military exercises.
