Roman Bezsmertnyi: Kremlin Prepared Plan For Partitioning Belarus

• 8.09.2016, 9:42

Lukashenka is acting solely in the interests of his masters in Moscow.

Belarus may suffer the same fate as Ukraine. The former Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Roman Bezsmertnyi expressed this opinion in the program “The Big Interview” with Yevgeny Kiselyov (NewsOne channel, Kyiv) on September 7, BelaPAN reports.

According to him, the Kremlin has already prepared a plan according to which Belarus will be divided just as Ukraine: Vitsebsk and Minsk – the east, Brest and Hrodna – the west.

The Ukrainian diplomat thinks that Aliaksandr Lukashenka “has long been acting within the framework defined by the Kremlin.” “Belarus today is a transit base for Russian exports to Europe. Take a look at the Belarusian export to Holland – it’s fuel and lubricant materials that come to Belarus from Russia, and then they go to Holland. It is done to bypass the sanctions, and this system works well,” – Bezsmertnyi quotes the website of the TV channel.

The diplomat named Belarus the main Russian importer. As for Lukashenka’s attempts to establish relations with the West, he, according to the diplomat, “is pushed to the direction, where Russia needs the channel.”

Roman Bezsmertnyi was appointed the Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus by the decree of President Viktor Yushchenko on February 24, 2010, the day before the inauguration of Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovich dismissed Bezsmertnyi from the post of Ambassador on June 3, 2011. According to political analysts, the dismissal was caused by the diplomat’s harsh comments on the policy of the official Minsk.