Ukraine will still reap the benefits of spoiled relations with Lukashenko - Kiev expert
It was extremely reckless on the part of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to spoil relations with his strategic partner in the person of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Ukrainian political scientist Andrei Zolotarev stated this on the Politeka online YouTube channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The events of a year ago led to a radical cooling of relations between Ukraine and Belarus. I think this is wrong. Many will be indignant - how can this be, this is a dictator, a “people-eater” and so on, but there are interests of the state.
I have said more than once that in 2014, Ukrainian tanks were refueled with diesel fuel, which was supplied from the Mozyr oil refinery.
And the National Guard, which is now preparing for the parade, half of the National Guard, is in Belarusian MAZs (we almost ruined our KrAZ, so we bought it from Alexander Grigorievich). Well, we won’t lose 5 billion in trade turnover either, we don’t have that many markets left,” the expert said.
In addition, he recalled that turning a thousand-kilometer cordon into a border with a hostile state is not the most reasonable policy.
“Moreover, Lukashenko directly admitted that Russian troops could appear there. And from the Ukrainian-Belarusian border to Kyiv is three hours,” added Zolotarev.
It should be noted that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko previously suggested that, in the event of a threat, "all Russian Armed Forces" would be deployed to the country .
Ukraine will suffer the consequences of its damaged relations with Lukashenko, says Kyiv expert