Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday accused the West of being “obsessed” with Nazi ideas and being “at war with Russia” in Ukraine, where Moscow has been on the offensive for two and a half months.
“The followers of the Nazis are obsessed with the idea of revenge, but they are not willing to openly fight against the heirs of the Soviet people,” Lukashenko said in a speech at the May 9 party celebrated by the countries of the former USSR. About the Nazis in 1945.
“This is why they are filling Ukraine with weapons,” he said, before accusing the “Western elites” of turning Russia’s neighboring country into a “monster” and “raising Nazism to the level of state ideology.”
“It’s no secret that the entire Western world is at war with Russia in Ukraine,” said Lukashenko, 67, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist since 1994. He is Vladimir Putin’s closest ally and has left the region. Russian attack.
“More than 50 Western countries have united against Russia,” he said.
He also denounced Western sanctions on Russia and Belarus, saying that “attempts to suffocate” the country “will only make it stronger”.
“Neither legally nor morally Belarusians have the right not to support Russia,” he insisted.
“We are alone with Russia, and you are 50 years old,” said Lukashenko.
source: Noticias