Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada to end the agreement with Belarus on the mutual protection of state secrets. This was reported on the Parliament’s website.
The text of the bill has not yet been published.
Relations between Kiev and Minsk intensified again after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. In October 2022, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declared that in Ukraine “it is not only under discussion, but it is planned to strike” on Belarusian territory.
“Of course, the Ukrainians absolutely do not need it.
Well, why else would they open a second front on our southern borders – on their northern borders? Well, why? It’s crazy from a military point of view. But nevertheless, the process has begun.
The owners are pushing them to start a war against Belarus in order to lure us there, to deal with Russia and Belarus at the same time,” Lukashenko said.
In the same month, Zelenskyy, during a videoconference with the leaders of the G7 countries, called for the deployment of an international observer mission to the border between Ukraine and Belarus. According to him, Russia is “trying to drag Belarus directly” into the conflict with Ukraine.
In March 2023, Lukashenka announced that a Russian citizen and 20 of his accomplices had been arrested. They are suspected of having tried to blow up a Russian A-50 plane on the Belarusian airfield of Machulishchi. Lukashenka accused Ukraine’s Security Service of organizing the attack and called Zelenskyy a “moron”.
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