Ukrainian MPs suggest branding Belarus as Russian-occupied territory

April 12, BPN. Members of the Ukrainian parliamentary group For Democratic Belarus have suggested branding Belarus as a territory temporarily occupied by Russia.

The group’s leader Oleksii Honcharenko has called on the Verkhovna Rada to swiftly consider a resolution to this effect and a call on the international community.

Honcharenko said that an arrest warrant should be issued for Alaksandr Łukašenka, and that “this man should be in The Hague together with Putin.” (Quotes rendered from Belarusian).

“It is clear that today’s Belarus is a country occupied by Putin, and that Łukašenka’s regime is illegitimate. But can anyone explain why we still have an ambassador in Minsk? Thirteen months after death came to us from there,” he said.

On the solemn anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, February 24, Honcharenko told BPN that Belarus was “ultimately occupied by Russia,” and that Łukašenka’s “puppet regime” was responsible for the war “just like Putin’s regime.”