Ihor Kyzym: I Remember 'Bleating Lambs' – Belarusian Officials – About Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine
- 24.10.2024, 21:10
The Ukrainian diplomat answered Lukashenka.
Ihor Kyzym, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for Belarus, commented on Facebook on Lukashenka's statements in an interview with the BBC.
"Well, the Russian troops were coming back from the exercises in the south of Belarus, and then they suddenly turned to Kyiv," the diplomat interpreted Lukashenka's words. "But this does not explain why missiles and bombs flew simultaneously on Ukrainian territory from Belarusian airfields and why this invasion lasted more than one month. Although no, it explains, "ask Zelensky." Well."
"Being in Minsk at that time, I remember those "bleating lambs" (and their silence), which explained the obvious fact of Russian aggression and its support by the Belarusian authorities. At least until their supervisor was provided with relevant theses, which he still uses during such interviews," he added.
According to Kyzym, Lukashenka "actually does not change much in his assessments and explanations (KGB and the SVR [Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service - Ed.] shoved into his head), except his own escalation and adding "terrible" examples."
“So, in response to Rosenberg's question why he did not support Ukraine, he again issued such nonsense that even I was surprised... The reason is called sanctions, and the seizure of train cars, and the arrest of cars with drivers (whom he allegedly released after conducting a special operation), and five killed Belarusians, whose bodies were allegedly "dismembered so that we did not understand how they died," the special envoy drew attention.
Kyzym recalled that "Ukraine introduced the first sanctions against Belarus in response to its complicity in Russian aggression only in November 2022". The situation with train cars and autos also occurred "after the beginning of the aggression" and became "a justified reaction from the Ukrainian side."
"The 'liberation' operation was an ordinary use of the situation with the exchange of Ukrainian drivers who returned from Russia through Brest for Russian ones who went to Russia," he stressed. Belarus demanded to add its drivers (they had a plan to give them later) to the lists of Russians. But the most interesting thing about the 'explanations' is the increase in the number of Belarusians who were 'dismembered'. In previous interviews, I remember, he was talking about two, and now he is talking about five."
"What's next? I say this without much sarcasm, much less complacency. My comment, first of all, in order to understand what to expect not only for Belarusians, but also for us, Ukrainians and other countries of our region from this person's stay in power for the next five years," Kyzym summed up.