{"id":110986,"date":"2024-10-24T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/110986\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"ukrainian-envoy-pessimistic-about-lukasenkas-rule-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/110986\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian envoy pessimistic about \u0141uka\u0161enka’s rule in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October 24, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Ihor Kyzym, Ukraine\u2019s special envoy for Belarus, has expressed his concerns about the future rule by Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka in his comment on the January presidential election date announced yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u0141uka\u0161enka is running in the election, if one can call it that way in the current Belarusian realities,\u201d the diplomat said on Facebook “Obviously, he’ll come out the ‘winner’ for the seventh time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The election could remain an internal affair in Belarus had Minsk not become Russia’s accomplice in the war against Ukraine and facilitated the illegal migration crisis at the European Union’s borders, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s recent term in power turned Belarus from a neutral country into a co-aggressor that is threatening the world to use nuclear weapons, he stressed. Belarus\u2019 foreign policy depends on the Kremlin and is hard to predict, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141uka\u0161enka is not likely to change his Moscow-backed rhetoric, except for escalating it even further, Kyzym warned, referring to yesterday\u2019s interview with BBC<\/em>, in which the Belarusian ruler made controversial statements about the start of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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