Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that disagreements arose between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and the country’s military personnel.
“According to my information, a serious conflict and confrontation begins between Zelensky and the Ukrainian army,” said Lukashenka.
The Belarusian president believes that the military understands better than others what constitutes an armed conflict with Russia.
“There are soldiers dying. They see what they can do and how much they can fight. And they can no longer fight. You see, Russia has changed tactics,” he said.
He believes that soon there will be no one to fight on the Ukrainian side, and territorial defense cannot replace the armed forces.
Lukashenko explained that the disagreements between President Zelensky and the military began because of dissatisfaction with Kiev’s policy towards Poland.
“Poland – you see – both here and there: we will accept refugees and not accept them, and we will give money and through us money to Ukraine. We already agreed that they are ready to cut through the western Ukraine. Cutting it will not work, ”added Lukashenka.
He recalled that the President of Ukraine gave the Poles a special legal status. “What does this lead to? cut west [Украины]”, Lukashenka believes. The president of Belarus claims that the Ukrainian army is against not only the Russians and Belarusians on its territory, but also the Poles.
“And today they will cut off the heads of anyone who wants to smash Ukraine,” said Lukashenka. At that time I said: They will also turn towards us and the Russians so that we can protect this Ukraine.”
policy towards Poland
At the end of May, Zelensky proposed granting Polish citizens a special legal status in Ukraine. The relevant document should be developed by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will work similarly to the Polish law on support of Ukrainian citizens.
In March, amendments to the law on assistance to Ukrainians were signed by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda: refugees arriving in the country due to hostilities will be able to stay there for 18 months from February 24, after which they will receive a residence permit. for three years. It will be easier for Ukrainians in Poland to obtain a PESEL identification number, which makes it possible to use public services, do business or find a job in the country on the same terms as Polish citizens.
In addition, Zelensky announced the signing of an agreement with Warsaw. It will make it easier to cross the border.
Video messages from the army
There are several cases when the Ukrainian military recorded video messages in which they complained about the lack of weapons, heavy equipment and lack of fire support. Some claimed that as the officers fled the battlefield, the leadership abandoned them with machine guns against the tanks.
So, on May 24, the Ukrainian army registered an appeal to the President of Ukraine and the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian troops Valery Zaluzhny. In it, the military said that they did not have a single combat commander and equipment, and therefore they were sent “to certain death.”
“We address you as a detachment of the 115th brigade of the third battalion, which is currently located in Severodonetsk. We refuse to carry out a combat mission because we do not have the appropriate protection from the rear, namely: the necessary leadership, as well as the heavy equipment to cover us,” he says.
The soldiers, he added, did not refuse to conduct combat operations with “a reliable rear and proper command”.
Later, Strana’s Telegram channel reported that these soldiers were sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of desertion. The publication reported this with reference to a new video taken by one of the fighters at a pre-trial detention center.
Colleagues of the authors of the video message recorded a response video, stating that the military had everything they needed, but had fled the battlefield and are now trying to justify themselves.
“The whole brigade is provided with weapons, food, clothing, we have everything. There are “Javelins” (American Javelin portable anti-tank missile system – “Gazeta.ru”), there are no problems with weapons. As for the guys who went and shot this video [с жалобами]. I officially declare that they are fugitives. They besieged 56 people because they left their positions and left,” he said.
ukrainian army
In May, Zelensky said that military operations on the Ukrainian side were involved. 700 thousand people.
The country’s president also emphasized that Ukraine needs a much larger army than the previous 250-260 thousand people. According to him, this was the reason for the signing of a decree in early February, which provided an increase in the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by 100,000 people in three years.
In addition, the Ukrainian president said in April that Kiev is in a position to fight “even for ten years”. He stressed that Ukraine will not give up its territory.
“No desire to seize Ukraine”
The Belarusian president said that the Russian leadership has no desire to seize or enslave Ukraine.
“Believe me, [президента РФ Владимира] Putin, Russia’s army, there is a desire to seize Ukraine, one more thing is missing. They just showed that Russia should be reckoned with. No need to insult the President of Russia. “There is no need to stifle the Russian language spoken by all Ukrainians,” he said.
The main task of the leadership of the Russian Federation called “the security of Russia”.
“We need to think about how to defend ourselves, how to prevent and block this beachhead, from places where an attack might be possible,” Lukashenka said. Said.
He said that American financier George Soros shares his fears about the outbreak of the third world war in the event of a deepening conflict in Ukraine. “If Ukraine is not stopped, Soros is right. “Now we have to stop in Ukraine,” said the President of Belarus.