Referendum on the background of "Iskander"

In the course of the "people's will", Belarusians were grabbed, as in 2020, but now for anti-war posters

On Sunday in Minsk, it was almost like in the good old “good” times: more than 500 detainees-despite the fact that no mass protests, white-red-white flags and the Scandration “Leave!” There was no in the city. Just on the streets there were people with posters “No war!”.

They grabbed quickly and unsystematic: on the streets, at the Embassy of Ukraine, where Belarusians carried flowers, in polling stations, on the way to these very sections. Oh yes, it was a referendum day. That's just Belarusians all this story with a reversing Lukashenko safely ignored. Some went to the sites to spoil the ballots. But the majority is to write on them "There is no war!" Or just draw a Ukrainian flag. They were detained right next to the voting booths, because now in Belarus there is no secret vote: the cabins were made open from the side of the table with members of the election commission. Those, in turn, closely monitored the process. Wrote on the ballot "Glory to Ukraine!" - Let's go, citizen. I took a picture of the ballot - the same thing. Some Belarusians, approaching the plots, deployed anti -war posters. Of course, they did not reach the voting booth.

At five o’clock in the evening, several hundred people gathered in the square near the Ministry of Defense of Belarus. They did not have any white-red-white flags-only a few anti-war posters. But this was enough for the autosaks who are now familiar now to be filled with people.

Only now there were fewer people than security forces, so everyone was accompanied by a personal escort of several riot police to the autozak.

And Lukashenko, as always, came to the site to speak out in his usual style. He told terrible stories that in Ukraine they began to poison and beat the Belarusians, whom he is now obliged to protect. He threatened his own “special operation” in Ukraine: “He ( Zelensky. - I. Kh. ) What is pushing me to conduct a special operation so that I will free my people there? They do not know our special forces. " At the same time, as it often happens with him, he said that Ukrainians are preparing from among the Belarusians who escaped from the repression of Belarusians to abandon the Belarusian territory: “They prepared bandits from among the fugitives there. They shot them into groups like barbarians, and aiming towards Belarus. ” He advised Vladimir Zelensky “close and be silent”: “He gives the 41st year as an example. Listen, closed and silent, a Jew by nationality. How many Belarusians died, protecting the Jews in Ukraine and in Belarus? What does he think, we forgot Khatyn? There is nothing to say about the 41st, 45th. ” And contrary to the usual, he did not deny that missile strikes in Ukraine were inflicted from Belarus: “At eleven o’clock on the eve of this conflict, it was already dark - really from the territory of approximately the Chernobyl regions, where Russian troops were on the exercises, two or three missiles were launched.” According to Lukashenko, this happened because the Ukrainian army was going to strike at Belarus: “I did not let them start missiles. I said: "Yes, guys, we see it." And then the Russians released two or three missiles in these positions. After this, there was no position. But who is to blame for this? Why did you untie this war? " Then, however, he realized and swore that not a single unit of Belarusian weapons or equipment in Ukraine, because Russia has enough: “Russia does not need this. They have ammunition, and cartridges, and machine guns, and people will have enough people to solve the problems that Russia wants to solve. Therefore, we do not need to fasten us to where we are not. ”

For Lukashenko, the last weekend was almost a return to the former: he talked with Macron, he talked with Zelensky, offered his territory for negotiations and again felt not self-proclaimed in the country-participant, but a large political value. They are again forced to talk with him and even reckon, because Belarus is one of the bases of military operations. To ignore Lukashenko, how the civilized world has done this for the past year and a half, it will not work - at least while fighting has been going on.

Vladimir Zelensky Lukashenko promised that neither rockets nor helicopters would fly from Belarus to Ukraine; Tanks will not go and saboteurs will not go.

And an hour after their telephone conversation, the Iskander, launched from Belarus, flew to Ukraine. Actually, it is pointless to comment on Lukashenko’s words and explain to anyone that he is lying: “Iskander” are much more eloquent and completely reliable as evidence. You can also recall how in 2014 after the flight of Viktor Yanukovych Lukashenko, he received in one of his residences of the then acting President of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov and solemnly promised him that Russian troops would never attack Ukraine from the territory of Belarus, but, in extreme cases, promised to warn in a day. He promised - and did not warn. The phone probably lost.

On Monday night, when the number of detainees on Sunday in Minsk exceeded 520, the Central Election Commission said that the referendum took place, the turnout was almost 80%, and 65% voted for renewing the Constitution and Khupliya Lukashenko. Here everything was predictable and without surprises: the dictatorship is generally unbearably boring.