At the conciliation council of the Verkhovna Rada on September 7, Poroshenko compared the policies of the incumbent head of state, Volodymyr Zelensky, with the actions of Lukashenko.
“Because the political behavior of Zelensky with the persecution of the opposition, with all his wagners, chaus, trash, brilliant green, non-independent law enforcement agencies that persecute the opposition, with the generals who are behind bars, clearly confirms: Mr. Zelensky is moving along the beaten path of Lukashenka. if he finishes in the same way, “Poroshenko said. Fragment of the speech published in his Telegram.
“Let me remind you that Lukashenka has been in power, unlike Pyotr Alekseevich, who was sent to political retirement in disgrace, for 27 years. I agree: different years. “, – Getmantsev said. How and for what period the welfare of countries was measured, he did not specify.
Getmantsev also wrote that pensioners in Belarus “can live tolerably well on their pension, even a minimal one,” and promised that the current government of Ukraine will provide “both pensioners, teachers, and doctors with proper living standards.”
Relations between Kiev and Minsk deteriorated in the summer of 2020 – after Ukraine refused to recognize the results of the presidential elections in Belarus, and Lukashenko – as the country’s president-elect. Kiev also expressed support for the Belarusian protesters who carried out massive actions against electoral fraud.
From May 26, 2021 – due to the forced landing of a Ryanair airline flying from Athens to Vilnius, and the subsequent detention of opposition leader Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapieha – Ukraine decided stop air traffic with Belarus, and banned Belarusian planes use your airspace.
In early July, Lukashenka demanded to completely close the border with Ukraine, stating that from Ukraine “a huge amount of weapons is coming.”
At a meeting with security officials on August 5 Lukashenko calls Ukraine’s course “additional threat” and accused the country’s authorities of pursuing a “policy of confrontation.”
At a press conference on August 9, Lukashenko announced his readiness to recognize Russian sovereignty over the temporary occupied Ukrainian Crimea, supposedly transportation of weapons and training in Ukraine “militants” for actions on the territory of Belarus, and also threatened “bring to its knees” Ukraine together with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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