{"id":46555,"date":"2023-04-18T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lukasenka-meets-pushilin-in-minsk-promises-assistance-to-donetsk-region-run-by-russia-backed-separatists\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lukasenka-meets-pushilin-in-minsk-promises-assistance-to-donetsk-region-run-by-russia-backed-separatists","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46555\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka meets Pushilin in Minsk, promises assistance to Donetsk region run by Russia-backed separatists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>April 18, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>&#8220;The Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic needs to recover&#8221; and has &#8220;a lot of work ahead,&#8221; Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka has told Denis Pushilin, leader of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine\u2019s breakaway region of Donetsk, at their meeting in Minsk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t \u0141uka\u0161enka noted the need to revive industrial enterprises and agriculture in the Donetsk region to make the area more attractive for people to return.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;We are ready to provide the necessary assistance and support so that the people, who are not strangers to us, will finally stop suffering,&#8221; his press office quoted him as saying.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In April 2014, Russia-backed separatists proclaimed a republic in the part of the Donetsk region of Ukraine not controlled by Kyiv. In late July 2022, Pushilin visited Belarus\u2019 city of Brest and met local officials.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In September 2022, Vladimir Putin approved the incorporation of Ukraine\u2019s breakaway regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson into the Russian Federation. A few days earlier, Russia said it held referenda in occupied Ukrainian territories.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Ukraine, Western countries, and the UN have not recognized these decisions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Belarus has not recognized the independence of the breakaway regions and their incorporation into Russia, but \u0141uka\u0161enka has supported Russia&#8217;s war on Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The Belarusian ruler also visited Georgia&#8217;s breakaway region of Abkhazia last fall without informing Georgian authorities about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18, BPN. &#8220;The Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic needs to recover&#8221; and has &#8220;a lot of work ahead,&#8221; Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka has told Denis Pushilin, leader of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine\u2019s breakaway region of Donetsk, at their meeting in Minsk. \u0141uka\u0161enka noted the need to revive industrial enterprises and agriculture in the Donetsk region to make the 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