The leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko landed in Moscow today for talks with the Russian president Vladimir Putinwhich according to Minsk may determine for how long still the Russian military forces will remain in the former Soviet republic located in the north of Ukraine.
The common Russia’s “war games” in Belarus, scheduled to last until Sunday, have heightened Western fears that Moscow could launch an attack on Of Ukrainewhich has common borders with both countries.
THE Russia denies planning to invade. Minsk and Moscow have said that Russian forces – Russia’s largest development in Belarus from the end of the Cold War, according to NATO – will leave when the exercises are over.
However, Lukashenko’s rhetoric has since created the possibility that the forces, which are part of a wider concentration of Russian forces in northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, may actually remain longer.
“Whatever decision we make tomorrow, it will be made,” Lukashenko said yesterday, according to the BelTa news agency. “If we make a decision, we will move (the force) within 24 hours. If we decide on a month, they will stay for a month. The military will remain for as long as neededLukashenko reportedly said.
He also said that Moscow and Minsk had agreed that Russia would leave ammunition in Belarus and that Minsk could buy military equipment from Russia, or simply accept it as a “gift”.
Military exercises are a sign of increased control over Minsk by Moscow.
According to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, for years, Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, turned the East towards the West for political gain and resisted the idea of creating a permanent Russian military base.
But since Putin backed him with political and financial support to help him in the face of mass opposition protests in 2020, Lukashenko has lost much of that image of autonomy.
Franak Vyatsorka, an adviser to Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, described Lukashenko as a Moscow subordinate. “We see Lukashenko handing over Belarus sovereignty” wrote on Facebook.
Source: News Beast
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