The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, speaking in the State Duma, showered compliments on the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
“Today our situation is becoming more complicated. We are surrounded from all sides and are trying to threaten us. What is happening now on the border of Belarus and Poland is a special operation carried out by the West and NATO. And if it was successful for them in Ukraine, then it fails here. Notice how united Europe groaned. With his character and will, Old Man, together with the security forces, turned out to be stronger than the EU and NATO. He sets an example of how to protect national state interests,” Zyuganov said.
He accused the hosts of the TV program “60 Minutes” Evgeniy Popov and Olga Skabeeva of allowing themselves to criticize Lukashenko
“I would like to appeal to Popov, he is now a deputy. Together with your charming wife, stop trying to persuade Belarus in vain. We have no future without Belarus, as well as without restoring normal relations with Ukraine. We will not be a major geopolitical power. We need to add up the potentials. And there is no point in persuading Ukraine every day. She herself found herself occupied by the Nazis and Bandera. We must protect the people,” Zyuganov said.
TV presenter Popov, who became a deputy, published a response to the main communist on his blog.
“Believe me, we love Belarus and Ukraine no less than you. And objectively – with the participation of all parties – we talk about what is happening there.
Including the fact that Old Man fuels Ukrainian tanks with diesel fuel made from our oil. And then these tanks destroy the Russian Donbass. And about the fact that a journalist from our Komsomolskaya Pravda is being held in a Belarusian prison, and about the fact that Lukashenko sells the electricity obtained from the nuclear power plant we built, which is almost free, to the very Nazis, as you rightly called the current Ukrainian regime.
If this is what you call “persuading” Belarus, then let me disagree with you.
You yourself accurately formulated about Ukraine - a country occupied by Bandera.
And, of course, you are absolutely right that the future of Russia is together with Belarus and Ukraine.
And also, if the fate of Russia depended on our “inclinations,” we would have long ago lived within the borders of the Soviet Union,” Popov assured.