Excerpt from Alexander Lukashenko’s interview with BBC at the BRICS summit

Excerpt from Alexander Lukashenko’s interview with BBC at the BRICS summit The conversation turned to reproaches against Belarus for supporting Russia: “Russia is our ally, so you understand. We have a closer relationship with it than the British and the Americans. Secondly, Ukraine behaved in a hostile manner towards Belarus, it imposed sanctions against us earlier than the Anglo-Saxons, it banned flights of our civilian aircraft, it seized our trains with mineral fertilizers, it arrested 75 trucks with people. It behaved like bandits. You know this, I had to conduct a special operation to free the guys they arrested. We freed them, and they killed five people... “ “I have supported and will support Russia as long as it needs. As you say that you will support Ukraine, NATO. Fifty to sixty states, in fact. You stand behind Zelensky and say that you will support as much as until the entire population of Ukraine dies.“ [“Well, they are defending a country that was attacked.“] Luka... Source: Slavyangrad