Volodymyr Tsybulko: Let Lukashenka Make No Excuses
10- 23.01.2025, 18:40
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Belarusian enterprises are a legitimate target for the Ukrainian forces.
The other day there was a big investigation about how Belarusian enterprises work for the Russian defence industry. Belarusian enterprises produce shells for the Russian Grad MLRS. Civilian enterprises such as the Belarusian Automobile Plant, the Belarusian Metallurgical Plant and the Barisau Plant of Automotive and Tractor Electrical Equipment are involved.
Has this investigation been noticed in Ukraine? What was the reaction? Charter97.org spoke to Ukrainian political scientist and writer Volodymyr Tsybulko about this:
— Firstly, Ukraine very clearly tracks the placement of Russian orders at Belarusian enterprises, even the activity before the war was tracked. So our analysts are working, but it seems to me that the Ukrainian authorities do not focus on this issue.
We understand everything, we monitor everything, but we do not use special programs against Belarus. We understand Lukashenka's status as a Russian puppet who does not have independence. He serves as such a talking head, rather than a real leader of Belarus.
— Do Belarusian enterprises working for the Russian defence industry become a legitimate target of the Armed Forces of Ukraine?
— They are already such a target. By the way, it turned out that Lukashenka personally offered Zelensky to strike, for example, at oil refineries. There, in conversation with Zelensky, he strongly rejected his alliance with Putin, swore that it was not he who attacked Ukraine. But who will believe him?
In Ukraine, everyone clearly understands that if there is a state that allows third party troops through its territory, then this is a real complicity in the crime. Therefore, let Lukashenka not come up with excuses. Everyone understands perfectly well that such general dependence on a single large sales market has made Belarus, let's say, a machine-building plant of Russia, and not an independent state.
— This information appears against the background of Lukashenka's attempt to distance himself from the war, to try to portray himself as a victim of circumstances. Will Lukashenka succeed?
— No, it will not work, because the first marker that he is an accomplice is terror against his own people. He killed many, we remember, it began with the head of the CEC [Chairman of the CEC of Belarus Viktar Hanchar disappeared without a trace in Minsk on September 16, 1999 - Ed.], and went. Lukashenka killed so many of his compatriots so he cannot be the leader of the state, and he's obviously Kremlin's puppet.
— If we talk about the situation after the war, is there a chance for Lukashenko to return to relations with Ukrainian politicians, or will Kyiv never forgive the Belarusian dictator?
— No, Lukashenka will not be forgiven, and his entire clique, by the way, will not be forgiven either. He is not the only one who made it, he has an entourage, he has the head of the KGB, he has the Minister of Defence. His entire clique is also guilty of crimes. I understand that Lukashenka had a trusted person, in my opinion, his surname was Varabie [the business of the Belarusian oligarch Mikalai Varabie was closely connected with the pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk - Ed.], and he strongly connected with the Ukrainian bitumen market, but these are all elements of corruption.
But corruption is one crime, but military atrocities and complicity in them — there are no time limits on this. This is a crime that should still be punished. Even if some people from the Ukrainian government try to somehow improve relations with Lukashenka and his political followers, I do not think that Ukrainians will accept this.
Ukrainians perceive Kalinouski's regiment, Ukrainians perceive the Belarusian democratic opposition, but not Belarusian fascism, as such an appendix of Russian fascism.
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