Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to meet with Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk to force him to fulfill "alliance agreements" and support the offensive against Ukraine. This was stated by the advisor to the head of the President's Office, Mykhailo Podolyak, on the air of the telethon.
He explained why Putin is going to Minsk on his own, and not inviting Lukashenka to Russia.
"First of all, because the status of Putin today is not the status of Putin of yesterday. He is a person who has to go around and ask to get something," he said.
Yes, Putin sends his officials to Iran, independently travels to CSTO events, where he asks Armenians not to leave the organization.
"Putin today is not in a position to dictate terms to someone. Yes, he is still waging a war, he wants to end it on his own terms. Of course, because a person is weak from an intellectual point of view and does not understand what state he is in. He is detached from reality as such," Podolyak noted.
At the same time, according to him, Lukashenko still remains the political leader of Belarus, a country that demonstrates a certain independence. Therefore, Putin has to come to him and talk about the need to fulfill the "alliance agreements" - "if Russia is already dying in full, then it would be desirable that the "allied state" Belarus also perish in this war in the political sense."
In addition, Putin's task is to force Belarus to support an attack on Ukraine in any form. These could be information campaigns, training events, or even a ground invasion.
At the same time, Podolyak has doubts about the possibility of a second offensive from the territory of Belarus.