“He promised: “We will not fight with Ukraine. I cannot allow them not to use my infrastructure and not to enter through Belarus and not to launch missiles, but I guarantee that not a single Belarusian soldier will cross the border of Ukraine.”
This is what David Arahamiya, the leader of the “Servant of the People” faction, said about the promises of the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko to his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelensky in the first days of the war in Ukraine, reports UNIAN.
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As Arahamia noted in an interview with Nataliya Moseychuk, Zelensky refused to talk to Lukashenko, but insisted that the information from him at least be heard.
Then the presidential office did not believe Lukashenko’s words. Despite certain provocations, the leader continues to keep his word.
From the first days of the war, Belarus provided Russia with its territory for a ground invasion of Ukraine from the north and for airstrikes. Lukashenko then claimed that Russia had allegedly defended Belarus by invading Ukraine. According to him, the Ukrainians planned a simultaneous attack on the occupied part of Donbass and Belarus, and the Russians allegedly thwarted this plan.
It should be noted that the Belarusian army was never directly involved in the invasion of Ukraine, despite likely pressure from the Kremlin. The maximum that Lukashenko agreed to was to conduct continuous exercises of the Belarusian army with maneuvers near the Ukrainian border, so that Ukraine could not transfer its units covering the Belarusian border to the front.
Minsk also received fighters from PMC “Wagner”.
However, Kiev raises the issue of another painful topic – the deported Ukrainians.
We recall that according to a study published by Yale University earlier in November, more than 2,400 children from Ukraine between the ages of 6 and 17 were taken to 13 institutions in Belarus following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor said in May he was investigating Belarus’ alleged role in the forced transfer of more than 19,000 identified children from Russian-occupied territories since the conflict broke out, including to Russia.
The total number is estimated by some experts and organizations to be much higher.
The findings by the U.S. State Department-funded Laboratory for Humanitarian Studies at the Yale School of Public Health, shared with Reuters, were the most extensive yet on Belarus’ alleged role in Russia’s program to relocate Ukrainian children.
In a resolution passed by MPs in Strasbourg, the International Criminal Court is called on to issue an arrest warrant for Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in September.
The European Parliament accused him of complicity with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in committing war crimes in Ukraine. Putin already has such an order issued.
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2023-11-24 21:15:00
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