“Lukashenko provided the territory of Belarus so that Russian troops could gather their forces, and the entire military infrastructure became available to the forces of the Russian Federation,” said Pavel Latushka, the former Belarusian ambassador to the Republic of Poland, in Polish.
There is an agreement of the ambassadors of the EU countries to economic sanctions against Belarus for complicity in the invasion of Ukraine. The conclusions of the Brussels correspondent of the Polish Radio, Beata Plometskaya, show that this is a ban on the export of goods, but there is no decision to exclude Belarus from the SWIFT financial settlement system.
The former Ambassador of Belarus to the Republic of Poland spoke about the participation of Belarus in the Russian attack on Ukraine on the air of Polish Radio 24. As Pavel Latushka noted, “Lukashenko said that Ukraine would be captured in 3/4 days.” “He said this in an interview on Russian television before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine,” he said.
Role of Lukashenka
– This should be emphasized and we should not forget about the role of Lukashenka, – he stressed. “He made the territory of Belarus accessible so that Russian troops could gather their forces, and the entire military infrastructure, airports were prepared and available for the forces of the Russian Federation,” he stressed.
“Rockets were also fired at Ukraine from the territory of Belarus, and Lukashenka is the same aggressor as Putin,” he pointed out. – When we hear about the imposition of sanctions, restrictions against Putin, and not similar sanctions are introduced, as against Lukashenka, this is incomprehensible, – he assessed.
According to him, the rejection of sanctions “would be the same mistake that was made a year and a half ago, when the Belarusian people began their hard struggle against the dictator Lukashenka.”