Lukashenko Was Given A Shameful Role

• 3.08.2025, 16:42

Like the alcoholic Medvedev.

Political scientist Boris Pastukhov is inclined to think that the barbaric bombing of Kiev and the subsequent press conference of dictators Putin and Lukashenko on the Valaam bench is aimed at weakening the AFU's grip on the sky.

- Everyone watched the horrifying footage from Kiev and tried to understand why Vladimir Putin made a bloody show after Trump's words about the last deadline for appeasement. There were theories that Putin was rejecting Trump's hand. It turns out Putin is bargaining," the political scientist emphasized in a commentary Radio Liberty.

And he is bargaining strictly about one thing he glimpsed at his meeting with Lukashenko: his willingness to offer an air truce. Ukrainian strikes are causing significant damage to both Russian military infrastructure, civilian aviation operations, and Putin's own sense of security, says Pastukhov.

And he cites the recent Russian Navy Day celebrations in St. Petersburg, where the Kremlin ruler was followed by a security guard with a drone interceptor.

Putin has decided to press for an exchange of air threats, the expert says: "You make an air threat to us, we make an air threat to you. Let us remove this, and then we will continue to squeeze these kilometers with bloody assaults on the front until you surrender."

And this is both an admission that Moscow is really pestered by Ukraine's air attacks and a mini PR and pass to Trump in case he decides to accept it.

In Pastukhov's view, Lukashenko continues to act in the role in which Medvedev is working: expressing the part of Putin's thoughts that concerns nuclear destruction.

At the same time, Lukashenko is expressing the part of Putin's thoughts that he doesn't want to say either: an attempt to put Ukraine's surrender talks on the strategic track.