Lukashenka says he unconditionally supports Russia
Presidents of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko on December 19 taken especially in Minsk. After that, they gave a joint press conference, focusing on the topic of “general external support for Russia by Belarus”, especially in connection with the Western context caused by Russian aggression in Ukraine.
“You know: we are both co-aggressors, the most harmful and dangerous people of Belarus on this planet!”, Lukashenka said, and that at present “the future of Russia and the Belarusian people is being determined”, and that “under sanctions pressure, Russia can grow without expenses, but Belarus without Russia is not.”
Putin and Lukashenko announced their intention to further strengthen ties in the field of gas and nuclear energy, transport, cargo transportation and the space industry. Lukashenka focused on the fact that the price of Russian gas next year for Belarus will be fixed.
Questions of military policy, in particular the topic of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the prospects of possible accession to the unacceptable Belarus, were hardly captured at the press conference. However, Vladimir Putin said that the two countries agreed to continue using common educational institutions. Alexander Lukashenko said that the army of Belarus is going to gather and gather to launch “specific tourist routes.” He also addedthat Russia handed over the S-400 and Iskander missile systems to Belarus, they have already been put on combat duty.
A few days before, Lukashenka once again accused rejected) and justified the intention to increase the grouping of Russian troops in his country by “aggravation on the western borders of the Union State.”
In early December, Lukashenka at a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said saidthat Russian and Belarusian citizens expect to be trained “as a single group, a single army.” December 13 in Belarus by order of Lukashenka started a sudden check of the combat readiness of the country’s armed forces.
- Ukrainian intelligence of the economy, transferring Russian soldiers and military equipment to Belarus, but at the moment there is no direct arrival towards Belarus. On December 19, it became known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are intensifying transit with Belarus for the possible presence of Russian troops on the territory of this country. About it declared in an interview with the BBC, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yevgeny Enin. According to him, the fortification includes the construction of defensive borders, artillery positions and food depots.
- Vladimir Putin arrived in Belarus on December 19 in 2019. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also arrived in Minsk to meet with his Belarusian counterpart Viktor Khrenin. There is no information about the topics and their closed deals yet.