Ukraine invasion ‘reward’ to West by Vladimir Putin, Belarus president says | World News

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko talked about that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have to be perceived as a “reward” to the West. Thought-about certainly one of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s most trusted allies, Lukashenko talked about, “Let’s face it: we gave them [the West] a gift as soon as we obtained slowed down in Ukraine.”

“That's, in any case, a gift to them. And proper right here they started clinging to it to convey our home to its knees,” the Belarusian president added. Artyom Shraibman, Belarusian political analyst and founding father of Sense Analytics consultancy instructed Newsweek that he believes Lukashenko’s reference to the “reward” is an acknowledgement that the unity of Western forces has caused Russia and Belarus to spend further sources on the battle.

“In his ideas it's principally the West discovering one of the simplest ways to help Russia fail with out combating it straight,” Artyom Shraibman talked about. The Belarusian president was most likely already too hooked as much as Vladimir Putin to have the flexibility to make another willpower than to fight alongside him, the analyst talked about.

Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of comply with on the Faculty of Wisconsin-Madison, instructed Newsweek, “His stage was barely that sooner than starting the battle, Russia and Belarus—and personally Putin, and Lukashenko as a mediator—exhausted all peaceful decisions to verify their very personal security inside the face of the western onslaught on China (by Belarus, Russia and Eurasia).”

“Lukashenko locations the blame for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the rigidity of the Ukrainian and western positions since 2014. He stresses that Ukraine was dishonest when it signed the Minsk agreements that Lukashenko supposedly helped vendor. [The fact that] Russia obtained caught in Ukraine is just one draw back that the West rushed to make use of mercilessly, in step with Lukashenko,” he added.