International journalist: Neither Russia nor its ally Belarus should save Ukraine
In the event of an aggravation of electricity shortages, Ukraine can turn to Russia for help not only from Belarus, but it should not be helped.
Maxim Yusin, an international journalist at the Kommersant publishing house, announced this on the PolitWera channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Electricity from the Belarusians (is supplied), however, not in the volumes that Ukraine expects, but, nevertheless, Old Man helps them a little. We are not helping yet. True, I am afraid that at some point we will begin to help, because some kind of rather complex game is being played, incomprehensible even to our brains. That is, if we are fighting economically, then we must fight in full. In terms of energy, we probably shouldn’t help such an unfriendly government of Zelensky, who behaves so defiantly and behaves defiantly towards everyone,” he said.
According to Ukrenergo, Ukraine in 2021 imported electricity not only from Belarus, but also from Russia, although in significantly smaller volumes. Thus, since the beginning of the year, Ukraine has imported 522,612 MW from Belarus and 101,888 MW from Russia. These data include shipments from January to October. From June to October, Ukraine did not purchase electricity from either Belarus or Russia. Data for November has not yet been published.
Maxim Yusin does not agree with the opinion of FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev that the crisis in Ukraine could lead to millions of refugees from Ukraine ending up in Russia.
“I think that if any problems arise, millions of refugees would rather flee there, somewhere to Poland, to Lithuania, than to us. Let us have no illusions - 70 percent of the current Ukrainian population treats us, if not hostile, then clearly not in a friendly manner.
Honestly, I don’t want to argue with Patrushev himself, but it won’t come to a situation where there will be millions of refugees. There will, rather, be some kind of political crisis, which we could contribute to by stopping energy assistance. Because the more political chaos there is (I’ll say it cynically), the better off we are, because it gives additional arguments to those who say: “You see, you want to create “Anti-Russia”? Like it is there now, with Zelensky, with all these Bogdans, Ermaks opposing them, who is in the opposition there now? Is this the ideal you want to build?”
Therefore, no, it seems to me that we need to get involved in it politically as little as possible, because no matter who we place our bets on, this project will inevitably fail. And from the outside, watch how, if there is no external pressure from Moscow that unites them, they will inevitably come to their favorite state of civil strife, tearing each other apart. Well, then we’ll tell the West: “Well, is this the ideal that you want to present to the entire post-Soviet space as an alternative to Russia? This Ukraine?
Therefore, I think we should not help them overcome this critical situation,” the journalist said.
Since Russia benefits from such a crisis, Ukraine does not need to help it, and Belarus should be influenced so that it stops helping.
“We shouldn’t help them – neither with energy supplies, nor, especially, with diesel, which goes to the tanks fighting in the Donbass. And if we have a clear state position, then we must be able to influence our closest ally, who is completely dependent on us,” noted Maxim Yusin.
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