Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed that Western nations pushed Ukraine into conflict with Russia and that the battle advantages the U.S.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the assist of Belarus, launched an internationally condemned invasion of Ukraine on February 24. The assault got here after weeks of warnings from President Joe Biden and European leaders that a Russian assault was imminent.
In a bid to justify the unprovoked invasion, Putin absurdly claimed that Ukraine was led by "neo-Nazis" and wanted to be "denazified." In actuality, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, who received election in 2019 with almost three-quarters of the vote, is Jewish and had members of the family die within the Holocaust genocide orchestrated by the Nazis throughout World Struggle II. When Zelensky was elected, Ukraine's prime minister was additionally Jewish.
Talking to Japan's TBS, Lukashenko blamed the West for Putin's actions, Russia's state-run Tass information company reported on Saturday. "The West pushed them towards this conflict," the Belarusian chief claimed. Lukashenko has been in energy for almost twenty years and has been described by analysts as "Europe's final dictator."
"The conflict can finish in a short time if he [Biden] makes a cellphone name, if the U.S. takes a place in favor of the institution of peace on Ukrainian soil. Nevertheless, he's unlikely to make a name like that. The reason being that the present state of affairs in Ukraine is helpful for the People. That is what America wants," Lukashenko claimed within the interview.
Forward of Russia's invasion, U.S. and Western European officers held a number of conferences with prime Moscow leaders searching for a diplomatic resolution to forestall the assault. Putin pushed ahead with the assault anyway, mendacity to the Russian public concerning the motivation for the navy operation.
Within the wake of the assault on Ukraine, Russia has cracked down on anti-war demonstrators—with greater than 14,000 being arrested, in accordance with unbiased monitoring group OVD-Data. The federal government in Moscow has additionally banned media organizations from utilizing the phrases "conflict" and "invasion" to explain the assault on Ukraine. These protesting the conflict may resist 15 years in jail.
The U.S., Canada and Western European allies have responded with harsh sanctions focusing on the Russian and Belarusian economies in addition to Moscow elites—together with Putin and different authorities officers. The Biden administration and its allies have additionally shortly transferred billions of dollars in weapons and humanitarian assist to Ukraine because the nation continues to battle again the Russian aggression.
In a landmark United Nations Common Meeting vote on March 2, 141 nations voted to sentence Russia's assault on Ukraine. Simply 4 nations—Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Eritrea—voted towards the decision together with Russia.
Biden has referred to as Putin a "murderous dictator" after media stories, pictures and movies have documented Russian assaults towards civilians all through Ukraine. The Russian president is "a murderous dictator, a pure thug who's waging an immoral conflict towards the folks of Ukraine," Biden stated Thursday.
In the meantime, Russian leaders proceed to push propaganda towards Ukraine and even argue that they didn't assault their Jap European neighbor. "We aren't planning to assault different nations. We did not assault Ukraine within the first place," Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Thursday.
Newsweek reached out to the State Division and the White Home for remark.
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