Lukashenko wants to exchange Chernobyl suffering for a gas discount
Gazprom, as a monopoly of the successor country of the USSR, should make a discount on gas for Belarus, as the former republic that suffered the most as a result of the Chernobyl disaster.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this today in Brest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Chernobyl happened. Legal successors... A third of the population suffered, we still cannot use wood there because of the high accumulation of radiation. But at least for this (we are not asking for money, nothing) help us - 10-15 billion cubic meters of gas at reasonable prices. Not for free, not at a loss to Gazprom, supply it to Belarus. People got hurt. And as legal successors,” Lukashenko is quoted as saying by his official website.
He believes that Belarus transferred to Russia “the most expensive thing” - nuclear weapons.
“They always say to the Russian authorities: “We are the legal successors of the Soviet Union.” And in connection with this succession, we transferred there free of charge the most expensive thing that today guards Russia’s security - nuclear weapons,” Lukashenko said.
In 2018, Gazprom supplied 20,33 billion cubic meters to Belarusian consumers. gas
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