Belarusian leader Lukashenko: The West is preparing to 'abandon' Zelensky.
(Baonghean.vn) - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko declared at a government meeting on September 22nd that Washington had allowed its partners to "remove" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky because he had become a nuisance.
Lukashenko cited the ongoing grain dispute between Poland and Ukraine as an example of this new policy, noting that Warsaw, once one of Zelensky's most loyal supporters, is now sharply critical of its partner.
The shift in stance occurred after Poland, along with Hungary and Slovakia, unilaterally banned imports of Ukrainian grain despite the EU's decision to lift the bloc-wide embargo. In response, Kyiv filed a complaint against the three countries with the World Trade Organization (WTO). “Do you think that today Poland is putting pressure on impoverished Ukraine for no reason? No, they have been given permission from abroad: We need to get rid of Zelensky, we are tired of him,” Lukashenko said.
The Belarusian leader noted that the US was about to hold a presidential election and suggested that no one would be interested in Zelensky at that time. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden stressed on Friday that Washington would stand by Zelensky throughout the Russia-Ukraine conflict and announced that US-made Abrams tanks would begin arriving in Ukraine next week. President Zelensky, on his second wartime visit to Washington, asserted that Kyiv's current fight against Russia relies on long-term US military support and stressed that without aid, they "would lose the war."
To date, the Biden administration has spent $115 billion in military and financial aid to Kyiv, recently requesting approval for an additional $24 billion by the end of this month. However, an increasing number of lawmakers, mostly Republicans, have begun to oppose the policy of funding the Zelensky regime with American taxpayer money. Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri stressed that the U.S. should stop pouring money into Ukraine, especially when Kyiv has “nothing to prove effective.” The senator was clearly referring to Kyiv’s highly-touted summer counteroffensive, which yielded no significant territorial gains. Senator Hawley emphasized that the U.S. should not spend “another penny on Ukraine” but instead conduct an audit of the billions of dollars already spent. He also suggested that Germany and other European allies should “step in” to support Kyiv.
