‘Lukashenka can be cornered in no time’

• 28.02.2021, 8:59

Dmitry Gordon told how to get the dictator to leave.

Well-known Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon shared his opinion on the options for removing Lukashenka from power.

- How can Lukashenka leave? What's going to happen? Departure to a better place, an order from the Kremlin, or his own decision?

- I do not want anyone to die. I can say that there may be several options for leaving. Option one and the most obvious in my opinion: the tough stance of the collective West. The fact that the World Ice Hockey Championship did not take place in Belarus is good. But this is not enough.

There must be harsh economic sanctions, and the pushing of painful buttons, resulting in pain. In the choice to leave or to stay, the choice to leave wins.

Therefore, the West, economic sanctions. Help from Russia? Russia is coming through some rough times itself. We need to look at geopolitics with the arrival of Biden. With Navalny's revelations, Russia can become Belarus or Ukraine. And here it is very important for the West to have its say. Lukashenka can be cornered in no time. It requires a desire, a political will. If the West has it, everything will come true.