Belarusian President Lukashenko points out Ukraine's biggest problem today
(Baonghean.vn) - The Belarusian leader said that Kiev needs to pursue peace before it becomes too late.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on October 27: “Wise people” in Kiev should call for a ceasefire and negotiations before they lose everything, as Ukraine is running out of fighting manpower.
“The most dangerous thing for Ukraine is that it will have weapons but no one to use them,” Mr Lukashenko told reporters in Minsk when asked about the conflict on Ukraine’s southern border. “We saw what happened there. At first, you know, the ideological people – the nationalists – they fought. Where are they? The fact is that they are all dead or crippled.”
The Belarusian president said that authorities in Kiev are now rounding up men off the streets and sending them to the front without any training. These conscripts end up trapped between fortified Russian lines and Ukrainian “barriers” that prevent them from retreating.
“People are fleeing Ukraine, no one wants to fight,” Mr Lukashenko added.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky purged all conscription agencies in August, after Kiev’s SBU security service said it had uncovered a network selling fake medical exemptions in dozens of regions of the country. Nearly 20,000 people were detained while trying to leave the country instead of being drafted, Ukrainian official sources said.
According to RT, the massive Ukrainian offensive launched in June failed to breach any Russian defenses in Zaporozhye while losing an estimated 90,000 troops and thousands of Western-supplied equipment. Russian forces are now counterattacking on the entire front.
Kiev also expressed concern that the country could run out of ammunition by 2024. Ukrainian officials noted that even the entire Western military-industrial complex would not be able to meet their needs.
Mr Lukashenko told reporters that US help would not last forever, so if it were wise, Ukrainians would sit down and negotiate with the Russians.
“Let’s negotiate. About what? About land and peace,” the Belarusian president said. He added that any territorial issue – such as Donbass or Crimea – could be brought to the negotiating table “so that people don’t continue to die.”
This is not the first time Mr Lukashenko has warned Ukraine about the dangers of stubbornness. In a lengthy interview with Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko in August, he warned Kiev that if they continued to fight for Donbass, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Crimea, they could lose Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkov and who knows what else.
At the time, Mr Lukashenko said Ukraine could “cease to exist” if the conflict continued, and called on Kiev to “stop the war”.
