During Vladimir Putin’s visit to Minsk, a short retrospective moment provided entertainment. Lukashenko and Putin said they were satisfied after the meeting.
Minsk – Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Minsk on Monday to talk, among other things, about Belarus’ role in the war in Ukraine. The two controversial politicians agreed to continue military cooperation and closer economic cooperation.
Meanwhile, a video of the meeting has sparked social fun. You can see Lukashenko and Putin enter the Palace of Republic in Minsk, but then not know where to go in the building. Putin looks questioningly at Lukashenko, who is much taller, and gestures with his fingers as if to ask: “Left or right?” But not even Lukashenko himself seems to know exactly where the two politicians should go.
The video of the Lukashenko-Putin meeting makes you laugh online: “When nature calls”
Finally, Putin decides to turn right and starts marching, Lukashenko looks after him, calls to him, Putin nods again and turns in the opposite direction. What happened next: Opened. Because the video stops here. But the internet wouldn’t be the internet if some fun scenarios weren’t thrown together quickly.
While some saw the video as just a hint that the two politicians didn’t agree on where to go, or that a little (kind of bitchy) argument broke out, others believe that either Lukashenko or Putin still wanted to go to the toilet. . One Twitter user described the whole thing in a humorous tone: “When nature calls, you obey.”
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The meeting itself, however, also raised some concerns in the West. The White House is monitoring the actions of the two politicians “very closely”, a spokeswoman said. Meanwhile, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War, or ISW for short, concluded that Lukashenko had let Putin attend the Minsk meeting. The interests of the Russian president are sometimes fundamentally different from those of Lukashenko. Among other things, the Belarusian president uses a certain rhetoric to avoid being drawn directly into the war in Ukraine. Despite the meeting, military involvement in the war is still unlikely. (fmu)
