Deputy Head of the State Department Nuland: the US is concerned about President Lukashenka's plans to visit Crimea President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to visit Crimea and recognize the Russian peninsula. This was reported by RIA Novosti.
With this comment, the US Undersecretary of State made a video link at the Kiev Security Forum. “Now he [Lukashenko] has gone even further as a puppet of Russia and is going to visit Crimea (…) He is pushing Belarus into the arms of Moscow, giving up not only the energy future, but only exacerbating the situation,” the diplomat said.
< p> According to Nuland, Washington is also concerned about the situation in Belarus as a whole. She once again accused the Belarusian president of provoking a migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. Also, according to her, the United States is looking for opportunities to introduce new sanctions against Minsk.
Earlier, Lukashenko said that de facto and de jure Crimea belongs to Russia. He voiced a desire to visit the peninsula. “My visit to Crimea, to which I have every right, no matter under whose protectorate he is there, the leadership and whoever is Crimea. This is my Crimea. We have a definite agreement with Putin that we will stay in Crimea, ”the Belarusian leader said.