'Time To Hug Prigozhin'

• 19.04.2023, 12:47

The dictator has no room to fall down anymore.

On Tuesday 18 April, Aliaksandr Lukashenka met with Denis Pushilin, the "acting head of the DPR". The impostor offered his "help" to the terrorist.

We shall remind you that Pushilin visited Belarus last summer, but met with minor officials in Brest.

Political analyst Anatoly Kotov said in a commentary to udf that the meeting between the leaders of Belarus and the "DPR" could have had two main reasons.

"The Kremlin is increasingly putting Lukashenka down. The meeting with Pushilin is a further forced step to meet with the leaders of unrecognized territories, the same Abkhazia," Kotov said.

On the other hand, Lukashenka's communication with Pushilin, in his opinion, is "a reasonable consequence of greed and desire to make money."

"It's no secret that trade is underway with the Russian-occupied territories of Donbas. There are projects to 'recuperate' children of Donbas on the territory of Belarus, which are the subject of the International Criminal Court. There is a desire to make money from the 'restoration' of infrastructure. Business built on blood. First we help to destroy, then we make money on the restoration," Kotov believes.

He stated that, on the whole, such contacts prove the impasse of the regime's foreign policy.

"De facto, Lukashenka recognizes the occupied territories as Russian and it is followed by meeting on camera with a war criminal and a typical financial swindler. Enough to say how one can fall even lower. The only thing left to do is to hug the leadership of the Wagner PMC in public," Kotov believes.

He added:

"Such meetings demonstrate complete dependence on the Kremlin. When you have a desire to preserve the field for maneuvering, you will not meet with so odious characters in public (and not in public, too). There is practically no room to fall down anymore".