“There have been no brains for a long time”: Lukashenko described Lithuania and Ukraine
Ukraine refused to import potash fertilizers from Belarus, asking to replace them with American products.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko spoke about this today in Minsk at a meeting with former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexander Moroz, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“What your authorities are doing against Belarus cannot be analyzed at all. It boggles the mind. Now they have begun to strangle our potash company. Ukrainians turn to the Americans: help us replace Belarusian exports. The Americans give the answer: no, we cannot, we do not have potash fertilizers. They buy from Canada themselves. You have to go to America to buy it! Imagine what the price is: extracting, processing, transporting, railway transport, loading at ports, ships will sail here thousands of kilometers, here again transshipment, again railway transport until they are delivered to the peasants. It will be an order of magnitude more expensive. Why are you doing this in such a situation?” – the president is perplexed.
He recalled how, in an emergency, Belarus supplied electricity to Ukraine and threatened to close the sky over its southern neighbor.
“When they contact me, there was a crisis situation a few weeks ago. There is not enough electricity, the entire energy system will collapse. I didn’t behave like that. We supplied electricity beyond what we could supply. Why is this happening? Why did they close the skies ahead of the entire planet to the flights of our planes? Well, we'll fly around. What if we come to an agreement with Russia, and Russia closes flights from Ukraine and sets entry points to Russia through Belarus? That's brainlessness. Well, okay, Lithuanians - they haven’t had any brains for a long time. But why is Ukraine doing this?” Lukashenko said.
Previously, Lithuania joined American sanctions and stopped transshipment of Belarusian goods through its ports. As a result, the port of Klaipeda lost a third of its cargo turnover, and Lithuanian railways lost 10% of its traffic.
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