Lukashenko about his permission to invade Ukraine from the territory of Belarus: «These are his troops, and he has the right»

Leaders of Russia and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Oleksandr Lukashenko, TASS photo

The self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Oleksandr Lukashenko, said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin did not ask him for permission to invade Ukraine from Belarusian territory.

He told about this in an interview with a BBC journalist.

«How do you know that I gave permission to use Belarusian territory?» Oleksandr Lukashenko answered the journalist's question as to why he allowed the Russian Federation to attack Ukraine from the territory of his state.

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According to him, the Russian leader himself decides how to lead his troops.

«Exercises were held in which several thousand Russian soldiers participated. Putin began to withdraw these troops from where they were in southern Belarus, down the road, along the border with Ukraine. At some point, he redirected part of these troops to Kyiv. I'm sure they were provoked. Putin decides how he will withdraw his troops: through Kyiv or he could go through Minsk,» said the leader of Belarus.

When asked by a journalist whether there was a telephone conversation between Lukashenko and Putin when the invasion from the territory of Belarus took place, Lukashenko replied: «No. He didn't call me. And I didn't call him. These are his troops, and he has the right to withdraw them in any way.»

Russia began to use the territory of Belarus even at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The Russian military invaded Ukraine and from the territory of Belarus, and the planes that took to the sky from the summer residences of the republic repeatedly attacked Ukraine with missiles.

Earlier, Oleksandr Lukashenko, holding a dog in his arms, threatened to seize part of the territory of Lithuania and Poland.

It was also reported that Belarus is moving tanks to the border with Ukraine.

We will remind, earlier the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Oleksandr Lukashenko, said that Ukraine «will still be ours», that for the USA it is already on the back burner, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is allegedly preparing to leave the country.

Before that, Oleksandr Lukashenko admitted that his country was participating in the war against Ukraine, but said that it allegedly «didn't kill anyone there.»