A Russian TV presenter said Lukashenko deserved to be made a Hero of Russia for defusing Wagner's mutiny. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is usually the one thanking Russia’s Vladimir Putin or asking him for a favour - be it a loan, cheap gas, help in navigating protests or tactical nuclear weapons. This time, the shoe is on the other foot.an armed mutiny on Saturday by Wagner mercenaries
In Mr Lukashenko’s telling - something he did in some detail on Tuesday - he was the one who persuaded rogue mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in protracted phone negotiations to halt his mutiny and who advised Putin not to rush to act.It is not immediately apparent what more Moscow, on whom Mr Lukashenko relies for cheap energy to keep his country’s Soviet-style economy afloat and whose security apparatus he relies on to ensure his own political survival in extremis, can give him.
“They hate each other. But they need each other,” Mr Franak Viacorka, an opposition adviser, said of Putin and Lukashenko. Mr Putin, in his first address to the nation since the mutiny was called off, thanked Mr Lukashenko on Monday night for “his efforts and contribution in peacefully resolving the situation”.High-profile Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov said Mr Lukashenko deserved to be made a Hero of Russia and Mr Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, on Tuesday lavished praise on the Belarusian leader.
Independent Belarusian media outlet Zerkalo , which monitored Belarusian state TV coverage of Mr Lukashenko’s role, cited presenter Yevgeny Pustovoi as saying that Minsk was becoming “the peacemaker of Slavic civilisation”.
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