US State Department spokesman Ned Price said Russian dictator Alexander Lukashenko " Price noted this during the last briefing..

He added that the participation of the Republic of Belarus in new military exercises with the Russian Federation does not change the approach of the States to the regime of the Belarusian dictator..

" The regime has thrown aside what should be the sovereignty and independence of Belarus and, in some ways, its territorial integrity, allowing Russian forces to re-enter what should be sovereign Belarusian soil,"

We are talking about the fact that it was the territory of Belarus that the Russians used as a springboard for the invasion of northern Ukraine..

“Besides human rights violations, besides the fact that the Lukashenka regime clings to power after the rigged elections, besides its persecution of political prisoners, besides what it does to trample on the civil rights and civil liberties of the Belarusian people – this is what changes our fundamental understanding of this regime.

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The Kremlin decided that the Belarusian military should take a direct part in the war. Lukashenka is trying to refrain from this step. But the room for maneuver is limited. Read about Putin's goals, risks for Lukashenka and what Western countries need to do in Vladimir Kravchenko's article \? " U.A..