Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Putin is in good health and “in his best ever”, in an interview with Japanese TV channel TBS.
Lukashenko added, in a recording of the interview published by the official BELTA news agency in Belarus: “He and I do not meet as just two presidents, we have a friendly friendship. I am fully acquainted with every detail of it to the fullest extent, whether official or personal.” Russia used lands of Belarus The starting point for the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Western leaders pointed out that Putin miscalculated the cost of a military attack on Ukraine, as his forces suffered heavy losses and faltered significantly despite their apparent superiority over their opponent.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Putin was “irrational” and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte described him as “completely paranoid”. But Lukashenko denied any suggestion that Putin, 69, was not at the height of his power.
Lukashenko told his interlocutor in the interview: “You and the West must get this nonsense and this fantasy out of your heads,” and he continued, “Putin is fully competent. He is at his best ever.. He is a completely adult person in good physical health.. He is an athlete.” “As they say here: He will witness all our funerals,” Lukashenko added.
Lukashenko also bemoaned the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and said: “The collapse of the Soviet Union is a tragedy… If the Soviet Union had existed to this day, we would have avoided all kinds of conflicts in the world.”
و .ضاف Lukashenko He said: “When the Soviet Union existed, the world was multipolar and each pole balanced the other… The reason for what is happening now in the world is unipolarity… the monopolization of our planet by the United States.”
