The Belarusian territory acts as a rear base for Vladimir Putin in the conduct of his war. The Belarusian population, which fought Loukachenko, in fact the price.
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On February 24, it was in particular with troops parties of Belarus that Russia invaded Ukraine. Four months later, the regime of Alexandre Loukachenko has never been so dependent on Russian President Vladimir Putin, to whom he owes his political survival after his disputed re -election in August 2020. The Belarusian territory, which provides Russia the whole Infrastructure necessary to conduct its war, now acts as a rear base for the chief of the Kremlin.
A few hours before a meeting between the two leaders, Saturday June 25 in Saint Petersburg, it is again from Belarus that twenty Russian rockets were drawn towards the Ukrainian military of Desna. kyiv reacted by accusing Moscow of wanting to “attract” Minsk to the conflict.
At the risk of aggravating tensions with Europe and the United States, Vladimir Putin announced, on the same day, delivery, “in the coming months”, in the territory of his neighbor, of Iskander missiles- M, capable of transporting nuclear charges. A perspective made possible by the new Belarusian Constitution, adopted at the end of a simulacrum of referendum, on February 27, and which makes disappear the obligation imposed on Belarus to remain a “nuclear zone”.
“Having nuclear weapons is the dream of Loukachenko for a long time, explains Franak Viacorka, close adviser to the representative of the Belarusian opposition in exile, Svetlana Tsikhanovskaïa. But if he gets them, he will become too powerful In the eyes of the Kremlin. Putin will have to find a tip so that Loukachenko does not have control of it and thus remains his puppet. “
the” bluff “by Loukachenko
The invasion of Ukraine has increased the vassation of Belarus vis-à-vis Russia. The process is also reinforced by the sanctions imposed by the European Union on the Minsk regime, targeted measures against twenty-two senior officials, and commercial restrictions. The former Soviet Republic, already punished after the fraudulent re -election of Mr. Loukachenko, also lost the Ukrainian market, which represented 14 % of its exports in 2021.
Sign of time, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, announced, on June 30, the opening of a Consulate General of Russia in the Belarusian city of Grodno, near the border with Poland and the Lithuania, where was held, until Friday 1 er July, on 9 e forum of the Biélorussia and Russia regions. At the end of an interview with Mr. Loukachenko, Mr. Lavrov underlined their commitment to keep “a coordinated line on the international scene”, and warned the Westerners on the “Iron Curtain” which is already in falling “between them and Russia.
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