Even Putin's henchman Lukashenko considers Crimea de jure Ukrainian

Self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that Crimea does not legally belong to Russia.

Lukashenko said this in an interview with Russian media, .

"Crimea is de facto Russian, but de jure it is not. Because legally, these issues are unilaterally settled," the self-proclaimed president of Belarus said .

According to him, the problem is that the international community does not recognize the peninsula as Russian territory. When asked by a journalist whether Lukashenka would go to Crimea, he replied that he was not afraid to go there, but there was no need for such a trip at the moment.

Earlier, in 2021, in an interview with Russian propagandist Dmitry Kiselev, Lukashenko stated the opposite - that after the so-called "referendum" of 2014, Crimea became de jure Russian.

Earlier, in a live broadcast on Intent.Insight, Intent's editor-in-chief Valeriy Bolgan met with Alina Rudina, a Belarusian media personality who was forced to move to Ukraine. During the broadcast, they discussed what Belarus looks like today, four years after Lukashenko's regime suppressed protests after the presidential election in Belarus. Can it be considered occupied by Russia? Who are the Belarusians fighting for and against Ukraine?

Regarding Crimea, during the Third Parliamentary Summit of the Crimean Platform in Riga, the Speaker of the Saeima of Latvia, Daiga Mierina, emphasized that Crimea was the starting point of Russia's aggression in 2014, and the return of the peninsula under the control of the Ukrainian authorities remains the goal of Ukraine's international partners.

Also, in his speech at the Crimean Platform Parliamentary Summit, Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that Russia's attack on the international law system began with the seizure of Crimea. The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović-Burić, also called for Russia to be held accountable for the annexation of Crimea.

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