Media mentions – Belarus
There is only a chance of more just negotiations when both sides have at least approximately the same conditions
Europe was too passive at the time to vigorously oppose Russia. But as long as Ukraine is defeated, peace has no chance, writes Pavel Slunkin in his op-ed.
Belarus has conducted many manoeuvres on its southern border in recent months, as Gustav Gressel explains
Lukashenko does not want to be involved in the war. The participation of the Belarusian army in this war is not useful for him, rather it would be a serious internal political and social problem.
Pavel Slunkin comments on the nature of the Belarusian support for Russia and on the possibility of a more direct involvement of Minsk in the invasion of Ukraine
Pavel Slunkin speaks in the podcast about his experiences in 2015 at Minsk and his thoughts on the impact of the invasion on Lukashenko and Belarus as a whole
Moreover, a ‘reliable and secure base for the Russian army in Belarus” could be more valuable at the moment from the Russian point of view than “an unpredictable second front in Ukraine’
It is to make people afraid. It is to demoralize them and to make them feel unprotected — that this can happen to anyone at any time
Lukashenko’s messages are becoming more and more radical, but in the end it is not what he says but what he does that is crucial