Russian President Vladimir Putin “did not ask Belarus to take part in the Ukrainian conflict”
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “did not ask Belarus to take part in the Ukrainian conflict.” but the West is pushing Minsk to do so ” broadcast by the TASS agency.
“Belarus should respond to Poland’s wish to occupy Western Ukraine, as poses a threat to national security “of our democracy,” Lukashenko said.
“We have to react, because we can not allow the Poles to completely surround us,” Lukashenko said.
In the meantime, Western societies threatened instability Vladimir Putin, describing Western sanctions on Russia as a “double-edged sword” in a speech at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, which took place almost two hours late, after a cyber attack. “Nothing will be the same in world politics,” he said.
He described the West ‘s sanctions against Russia as “Reckless and paranoid” and as an attempt to “violently crush the Russian economy in one go.”
The president of Russia argued that with the sanctions European leaders have “Manages to hit hard” in their own economies. “Sanctions will cost the EU more than 400 billion euros,” he said.
