“The only mistake” that Russia and Belarus made was “that we did not solve this issue in 2014-2015, when Ukraine did not have an army and was not preparedBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said, as quoted by Politico.
In 2014, Russia illegally invaded Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine, and Kremlin-backed fighters seized territory in eastern Ukraine. However, the Minsk agreements were then negotiated precisely with the participation of Lukashenko himself and the conflict in eastern Ukraine was frozen.
Lukashenko has had a complicated relationship with Putin during his nearly three decades in power. But after the Kremlin helped him quell mass street protests following what the opposition and the West called a rigged presidential election in 2020, the Belarusian leader has bet everything on Putin, helped Moscow launch its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. and agreed to deploy Russian nuclear weapons on his country’s territory.
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According to a Belarusian reading of Lukashenko’s speech in Minsk, he claimed: “We saw this coming,” referring to the Russian invasion. The statement continues that if the war had not started last year, “it would start tomorrow, but under worse conditions for Russia and Belarus“.
“Politico” quoted Lukashenko as saying: “The only mistake we made is probably not solving this issue in 2014-2015 when Ukraine had no army. We wanted to settle it peacefully. However, they used this time to develop a combat-ready armed force.
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