Lukashenko is no longer sure that he will come to Moscow for the parade
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is considering how to combine the celebration of Victory Day in Moscow and Minsk.
The head of state spoke about this in an interview with the Mir television and radio company, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I’m thinking about how to go to Moscow. Now we are trying to involve the administrations so that they can somehow connect it all. We can hold a parade in the evening, we have experience. But in the morning we always came to our monument in the center of Minsk.
It is clear that the president is always present on this day. Imagine if Putin were offered to spend this day in Belarus, which, in fact, is normal and symbolic, because Belarus is a living monument to that war. These events should be held here. Would the President of Russia go? No,” Lukashenko said.
He also made it clear that he could come to Moscow, but not go to the parade.
“Of course, Moscow is the capital of the victorious country. It's not even about the parade. You should have visited the tomb of the unknown soldier on this day,” Lukashenko said.
Last week, the Belarusian president firmly promised to attend the parade in Moscow . "People often ask me, 'Will you go to the parade in Moscow? Of course. If no one from Belarus comes to Moscow, then who will?' It's clear that no one from Ukraine will," Lukashenko's official website quotes him as saying.
Lukashenko is no longer sure he will come to Moscow for the parade.