Zelensky struck a blow at Lukashenko’s “cunning vectorization”
Yesterday's news of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to extend EU sanctions against Belarus proves the error of Alexander Lukashenko's reliance on so-called "multi-vectorism." Belarusian businesses could soon face new difficulties in Ukraine.
Political observer Yuri Baranchik stated this in a commentary to PolitNavigator.
According to him, a good response to the sanctions imposed by Ukraine would be recognition by the Belarusian leadership of the Russian status of Crimea, but this will not happen due to the same multi-vector policy of official Minsk.
“This would be good and correct, but, nevertheless, I think that this will not happen, because this would mean for Lukashenko that he will be forced to disavow his previous statements and approach, which has been going on for six years. I don’t think this will happen, but, nevertheless, Ukraine’s decision means a sharp break with the current government of Belarus and a refusal to be recognized as partners.
But this is what is on the surface, but inside we have the fact that Ukraine is consistently cleaning out the Belarusian business that was well infiltrated under Yanukovych and Poroshenko, especially in the oil industry. Therefore, Zelensky’s current decision was a consequence of rather long-term economic problems.
There is nothing surprising here; this is the political component of the issue. But, naturally, this speaks of the Belarusian multi-vector approach, which is supervised by the head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Makei.
We see that Minsk is consistently failing in all directions of policy: we now see a failure in the Ukrainian direction, I’m not talking about the failure in the Russian direction at all, because we see what is happening with oil supplies - if Belarus gets at least contracts for April one million, then this will be a very good indicator, Belarusian oil refineries will not die. And this, of course, is a collapse and evidence of the incompetence of the current Belarusian government,” Baranchik said.
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