Pyotr Simonenko proposed sending Belarusian journalists to Donbass
Pyotr Symonenko, the leader of the once popular but defeated Communist Party of Ukraine after Euromaidan, who previously spoke on Russian talk shows, has now come to Minsk to support President Alexander Lukashenko.
He criticized journalists who asked the Belarusian leader uncomfortable questions today.
“Alexander Grigorievich, send them to Ukraine for a couple of days, and everything will be clear there. For a couple of days to Ukraine. We are paying with blood for all this they talk about. No reforms will be carried out. As a person, I experienced all this on my own shoulders and I affirm: there will be no reforms. There will be a seizure of territory, that’s all,” Simonenko said.
Lukashenko was delighted with the unexpected support and agreed to send the journalists away from the front line.
"Take them. Yes, they know everything. They think that after a quarter of a century, I clung to this power in a stupor. That's not the point. I don’t want everything to be crossed out,” Lukashenko said.
Members of Symonenko’s Communist Party were among the deputies who, after the coup in the winter of 2014, continued to attend meetings of the Verkhovna Rada, helping to legalize the results of the coup.
Interestingly, this did not save the Communist Party from the defeat that the nationalists who seized power began a few weeks later.
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