Lukashenko shares thoughts on future of Ukraine

By admin On Aug 17, 2023

Ukraine should sue for peace before it loses the remnants of its sovereignty, the leader of Belarus advised in an interview

Ukraine needs to stop the war and start rebuilding its statehood on a healthier foundation, before it ceases to exist completely, the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on Thursday.

Putin withdrew troops from Kiev to avoid civilian casualties

The Belarusian leader dismissed suggestions that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky protected Kiev and that the Ukrainian army repulsed the early Russian invasion, calling the idea a “fairy tale… cooked up by mass media and Zelensky himself, in order to present him as a hero.” Lukashenko claimed that, at the time, Putin told him Kiev could be captured “right away, instantaneously, but a huge number of people will die.”

Lukashenko recalled how Ukrainian forces had deployed not only tanks but multiple-launch rocket systems in the streets of Kiev, near “kindergartens, schools, hospitals,” and other public buildings. “You probably know that the Russian troops, who were on the outskirts of Kiev, withdrew from there. Did [Zelensky] destroy the Russian army there? No… He was sitting in a root cellar at that time,” Lukashenko said.

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