Together with Putin we can bring Ukraine to its knees in a day, but we won’t - Lukashenko
Belarus and Russia could achieve the overthrow of Vladimir Zelensky within XNUMX hours if they stopped supplying fuel to Ukraine.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this at a press conference in Minsk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We are not going to introduce any sanctions against Ukraine. If we wanted to bring you to your knees, we would do it within 35 hours, together with President Putin, whom you dislike. We would stop supplying you with fuel and lubricants, and tomorrow we would carry out Zelensky and everyone else on pitchforks. Because 35% are us, 40-XNUMX% Russia supplies fuel to Ukraine,” Lukashenko said.
However, it is not beneficial for Belarus to stop trade with Ukraine. Moreover, Minsk is ready to sell electricity to the “petty” Kyiv.
“But you are behaving this way, excuse me, a little meanly. When you need it - accident after accident, 7 installations are out of order - support is required. Contact us and we sold you $25 million worth of electricity. Please buy. We never behaved meanly.
About two years ago, Volodya Zelensky called and said: there is nothing to harvest the crops with, there is no fuel... I forbade the Mozyr plant to be stopped for scheduled repairs, they spun it up, and supplied you with thousands of tons of fuel and lubricants. Everything is forgotten.
We will not shoot ourselves in the foot with this, because it will be painful for us too. Trade turnover is about $6 billion – decent. It’s beneficial for you and for us. But sometimes you behave very badly,” Lukashenko said.
He attributed Ukraine's dishonest behavior to its dependence on the United States.
“You don’t have to do that. This is economics, not politics, for all people. We supply you with 35% of the best gasoline and diesel fuel. If Russia does not support, it will take time to replace you. But we don’t do this, although we can come to an agreement with Russia. Therefore, you should not behave like this and rattle the saber of sanctions, because you yourself are also very dependent. We understand Ukraine’s dependence on America, but not so much as to introduce external control,” Lukashenko said.
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