Lukashenko condemned the Ukrainians who did not defend Crimea: they themselves "substituted"
The Ukrainian military had to protect Crimea, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. If "someone would want to cut off a piece of Polesie," then Belarusians would "fought for every piece of land," he said in an interview with Euroradio reporters, Freedom radio stations and TUT.BY portal. “It was not necessary to substitute. <...> I said to Turchinov that if it was your land, then why didn’t you fight for it. Moreover, there were many Ukrainian troops there,” Euroradio reports.