Lukashenka Comes To Terms With 'Kremlin Devil'
- OLEKSANDR LEVCHENKO, OBOZREVATEL
- 7.08.2022, 12:12
The dictator is already responsible for the Bucha atrocities.
It is necessary to pay attention once again to the role played by Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. More specifically, the role of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, unrecognized in Europe, who allowed the presence of a huge number of Russian troops on his territory, who allegedly arrived for joint military manoeuvres, in order to quickly cross the Belarusian-Ukrainian border on February 24, 2022, becoming the main danger in the Russian attack on the capital of Ukraine.
Kyiv constantly communicated with official Minsk regarding the danger of a military attack from Belarus, the sovereign state, a member and founder of the UN and other international organizations. However, Lukashenka and his entourage meanly lied so that on February 24 this year they stabbed Ukraine in the back. The Russian army launched an attack on Ukraine from the nearest point from Kyiv, which is less than 150 km away. So in two or three hours, some Russian units were near Kyiv, greatly worsening the overall military situation in Ukraine. The Russian army, which attacked from Belarus, completely destroyed Borodianka, most of Irpen and Hostomel. Massacres of civilians and crimes of genocide were committed in Bucha.
More than 420 people were killed in severe torture in Bucha. Most of the war crimes were committed by the Russian 64th Motorized Brigade, which used to be based in the forests of the Far East. Putin awarded this brigade the title of the Guards Brigade for the massacres of the Ukrainian people.
Officially, the Belarusian army did not take part in the military attack on Ukraine, but there is evidence of military volunteers who joined the Russian occupiers. Russian aviation used Belarusian airfields for raids on defenceless Ukrainian cities and villages in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, and from Belarusian territory, the Russian army fired cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukrainian infrastructure facilities and residential areas. For this, the Ukrainian side was very angry with the official Minsk. However, the Kremlin was unable to achieve its main goal, the capture of the Ukrainian capital, although a huge number of Russian elite units of airborne, airborne assault and special forces were marching to Kyiv. Therefore, the Kremlin decided to bring them back through Belarusian territory in order to immediately transfer them to the battles in Donbas, where the Russian army did not have significant success in the first month and a half of the fighting.
Putin is now demanding that Belarus openly enter the war against Ukraine, Lukashenka understands that this is the path to complete destruction, therefore he manoeuvres as much as possible and does not get involved in the war to the end.
The Kremlin is putting pressure on him again, and it is unknown how this will end.
Lukashenka is alone as a politician, and he is coming to terms with the Kremlin devil.
If Lukashenka does not resist and decides on a military adventure, then this will be his personal bloody finale, and definitely without a victory.
Oleksandr Levchenko, Obozrevatel