Alexander Lukashenko 'will do everything' for Vladimir Putin, exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Newsweek.
Just days earlier, a senior Russian diplomat told Russian state media that"any use of force by the Kyiv regime or a Ukrainian military invasion of either Belarus or Russia would be enough to trigger a collective response."
On Monday, details of a leaked Kremlin document were made public after they were obtained by a group of European newspapers, including theThe 17-page document, which the outlets reported was from 2021, described the"harmonization" of Belarus' legal system with that of Russia.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, president of the Coordination Council of Belarus, prior to a bilateral meeting in the European Parliament on October 12, 2022, in Brussels, Belgium."The main task now is to make sure that Belarus is not “left for later” in the current conflict," Tsikhanouskaya told Newsweek.Russia's objectives with Belarus match with how Moscow sees Ukraine, according to Michael Carpenter, the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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