Lukashenko: ‘Attempted attack on Russia’ situation in Kazakhstan

“Kazakhstan is an attempt to attack the post-Soviet states around Russia. They want to drown Russia in blood. I repeat: if Russia collapses, then we will not even know where we are. They will just pass over us.” Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has been quoted as saying by Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency, without elaborating on whether he is implying the West or which countries.

“They will grind us in the millstones and spit on us. So whatever the cost, we must maintain the center of our culture, the center of our Orthodoxy and beyond. Those lands that are now within the Russian Federation “, said the controversial, among other things, the leader of Belarus.

Earlier, Lukashenko publicly backed Kazakh President Kasim Tokayev’s version of a “foreign attack”, citing secret services “that created the unrest”, without giving further details, describing only “the gift we would give to The United States and NATO, like Ukraine, “if it were not for the decision to send a peacekeeping force of 2,500 troops to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) under Russian command.

As confirmed by the Kremlin, the President of Belarus played a leading role in the telephone conversations until a consensus was reached between the leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia, whose Prime Minister Nicol Pasinian .

According to Lukashenko, during the first telephone conversations with President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Nicole Pasinian, the three leaders agreed that one of the main tasks of the forces that will be sent is “to prevent the infiltration of foreign gangs to “The Kazakhs themselves, the people of this country, should be able to solve their internal problems on their own”, as broadcast by the Russian agency “RIA-Novosti”.