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Answer television channel interviews Pryamoi On September 6, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Belarus had a policy that it was not friendly to Ukraine.
“This is a hostile policy and we should not forgive it,” Foreign Minister Kuleba said in commenting on Minsk’s decision to pay the mercenaries of Russia’s private military contractor Wagner Group to Moscow. July and the recent statements by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko presides over a meeting of the security council following the arrest of 33 suspected Russian mercenaries in the capital, Minsk, Belarus. Photo: REUTERS
“Obviously, the relationship with Belarus is no longer the same,” Kuleba added.
According to Kuleba, human rights are systematically and widely violated in Belarus.
Ukraine’s foreign minister said Russia was starting to send its experts to Belarus, but in the end Kiev was charged.
On July 29, 33 Russian citizens were arrested in Belarus. The Belarusian police accused them of setting up large-scale riots before the country’s presidential elections. Belarusian officials claimed that the detainees were gunmen from the private Russian military company Wagner Group.
The Kremlin claims that these 33 Russians have no missions in Belarus and plan to travel to South America.
The Ukrainian government identified among these people a wanted person suspected of being related to terrorist activities in Ukraine and requested an extradition. President Lukashenko promised to extradite these “gunmen” to Ukraine.
However, on August 14, Minsk returned the Russians to Moscow. Kiev criticized this decision. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the arrest of Russian citizens in Belarus is a joint operation by US and Ukrainian intelligence.
Kiev rejected this information, calling it a disinformation campaign that had been carefully prepared and planned.
In early September, after meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that some 200 Ukrainian-trained extremists were responsible for the unrest during the demonstrations in Belarus. .
At the unofficial meeting of the UN Security Council, Mr. Dmitry Polyansky – Russia’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations accused the protests in Belarus coordinated from Ukraine.
(PLO) – President Putin said that the arrest by Belarus of 33 Russians suspected of being mercenaries was a joint operation by the intelligence of the United States and Ukraine.
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