Belarus
Monday 29 May 2023
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“Ukraine formally proposed to Belarus a non-aggression pact while preparing for war near the Belarus-Ukraine border, seeming to repeat the scene where they deceived Russia with the Minsk Agreements.”
The Minsk Agreements were negotiated to stop Russia’s undeclared war in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists fought Ukrainian government forces. -
“Washington has never hesitated to use force under fabricated pretexts … using false claims to justify its actions such as the need to protect the lives and well-being of U.S. citizens.”
To defend Russia’s war on Ukraine, Lavrov misrepresents why the United States overthrew Panama’s military dictator, Manuel Noriega, in 1989. -
“The special military operation continues, it continues methodically, it continues in accordance with the existing plans. All goals will be achieved.”
Russia failed to seize Kyiv as planned. After costly losses, it’s short on tanks and troops, while Ukraine has armed up. -
“We strictly comply with humanitarian law during the special operation.”
Russian military forces in Ukraine are accused of a gamut of war crimes, from deliberately targeting civilians to rapes, executions and use of indiscriminate weapons. -
“According to local authorities, no military funerals and burials of foreign soldiers have been registered in this settlement.”
A memorial to Polish soldiers did exist in the town of Mikulishki, Belarus. In fact, it was destroyed. -
“We categorically do not accept any war. We have done and are doing everything now so that there isn’t a war.”
Belarus was an eager partner in Russia’s invasion, transiting troops and tanks and providing staging for hundreds of missile launches. -
“The so-called collective West does not need a strong and sovereign Russia, and will not forgive us our independent policy and standing up for our national interests. It is trying to divide our society. It’s aim is to destroy Russia.”
The West spent decades after the Soviet Union collapsed helping Russia and trying negotiate differences. Putin gave up and attacked Ukraine. -
“We remind you that Russia, throughout all of its history, has never attacked anyone.”
Russia has engaged in numerous offensive military operations against its neighbors and others. Now, it’s rolling troops into Ukraine. -
"All these statements can contribute to the destabilization of the situation … [by] the Ukrainian leadership, who on the sly, if you will, can decide to start a new civil war in their country and try to solve the problem of the southeast.”
It is Russia, not Ukraine, that is threatening a military offensive, and Ukraine’s “civil war” is a Russian-fed incursion in Donbas. -
“The world still remembers well the events of 2015-2016, when refugees spent months sheltering under the open sky in European capitals. Not to mention the ongoing loss of life in the Mediterranean region, the English Channel and the Polish forests.”
The refugee crisis was largely caused by Russia and its intense bombing campaign to help Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad in the civil war. -
The quote attributed to Nuland, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, is fake and part of a torrent of domestic propaganda over Ukraine.
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“The unfair treatment of women and children among the refugees are especially outrageous, evoking grave concerns and solemn condemnations from more and more people upholding justice of the international community.”
China ignores Belarusian source of crisis, efforts by Lithuania to rectify it, and the spat over Taiwan office.