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Belarus admits Russia's war 'drags on'
[An Nahar] Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko defended Russia's invasion of Ukraine in an interview Thursday with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, but he said he didn't expect the 10-week-old conflict to "drag on this way."He also spoke out against the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine but wouldn't say if Russian President Vladimir Putin...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... had plans to launch such a strike. Lukashenko said Moscow, which launched the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 — partly from his territory — had to act because Kyiv was "provoking Russia." Posted by: Fred 2022-05-06 |
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