Belarus’ opposition is plotting to form an alliance with Zelensky to try to vanquish any hopes that Russia may have of expanding beyond Ukraine and further into Europe.
much like how he’s eyeing Ukraine, and hoping to envelope Belarus into Russia itself, Valery Kavaleuski, a foreign affairs representative for Belarusian opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya, told The Daily Beast.
“When you look at the map, you see that these are basically the most important countries on the way from Russia to Western Europe,” Kavaleuski told The Daily Beast. Democratic Belarus and Ukraine should be working closely to resolve the “grave threat to our statehood in both countries,” he said.Belarus’ relationship with Russia
In recent weeks, Belarus and Russia have been working on launching a joint military grouping and are conducting live fire exercises in Belarus.and hundreds of armored vehicles into Belarus in preparation for potential deployment, just as Russia faces mounting losses in Ukraine, Belarusian defense officials said.
"We have a distracted Russia that is about to lose this war. It won't be able to prop Lukashenko up with money and military support as in 2020,'' she said at the Warsaw Security Conference.“We are proposing to build an alliance with democratic Belarus,” Tsikhanouskaya said in her proposal. “I am convinced that Russia will be defeated, and Ukraine will restore its territorial integrity and defend its independence.
And if Lukashenko were to one day be ousted from power, pushing back against Russian influence would be key, Rauland noted. Tsikhanouskaya and her team “would be ready to serve as a transitional government should Lukashanka ever leave the scene,” he said.
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